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Malachi

Malachi, Malachias or Mal'achi was a prophet

Prophet

In religion, a prophet is a person who has claimed to have encountered the supernatural or the Divinity, often one who serves as an intermediary with humanity....
in the Bible

Bible

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, the Jewish

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
Tanakh

Tanakh

The Tanakh is the Bible used in Judaism. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew language Acronym and initialism formed from the initial Hebrew alphabet of the Tanakh's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim - hence TaNaKh....
and Christian

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
Old Testament

Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
.

He was the last of the minor prophets of David

David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
, and the writer of the Book of Malachi

Book of Malachi

Malachi is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Judaism Tanakh, written by the prophet Malachi. Possibly this is not the name of the author, since Malachi means 'my messenger' or 'my angel' in Hebrew language....
, the last book of the Christian edition

Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture

This brief article distinguishes the various terms used to describe Jewish and Christianity scripture. Several terms refer to the same material, although sometimes rearranged....
Old Testament

Old Testament

Book of Malachi

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
Tanakh

Tanakh

Ezra

Ezra was a Jewish priestly scribe who led about 5,000 Babylonian captivity living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem in 459 BC. Ezra reconstituted the dispersed Jewish community on the basis of the Torah and with an emphasis on the law....
, however, and he does not directly mention the restoration of the temple

Second Temple

The Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 516 BCE and 70 CE. During this time, it was the center of Judaism worship, which focused on the sacrifices known as the korbanot....
. The editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia

Jewish Encyclopedia

The Jewish Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. It contained over 15,000 articles in 12 volumes on the history and then-current state of Judaism and the Jews as of 1901....
inferred that he prophesied after Haggai

Haggai

Haggai was one of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Haggai. His name means "my feast". He was the first of three prophets , whose ministry belonged to the period of History of ancient Israel and Judah which began after the return from Babylonian captivity in Babylon....
and Zechariah (; , ) and speculated that he delivered his prophecies about 420 BC, after the second return of Nehemiah

Nehemiah

Nehemiah or Nechemya is a major figure in the Babylonian captivity history of the Jews as recorded in the Bible, and is believed to be the primary author of the Book of Nehemiah....
from Persia (Book of Nehemiah

Book of Nehemiah

The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible, historically regarded as a Ezra-Nehemiah of the Book of Ezra, and is sometimes called the second book of Ezra....
), or possibly before his return, comparing with ; with ).

chi is identified with Mordecai

Mordecai

Mordecai or Mordechai - the son of Jair , of the tribe of Benjamin, is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible....
by Rav Nachman

Rav Nachman

Rav Nachman bar Yaakov was a Judaism Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an Amora of the third generation, and pupil of Samuel of Nehardea....
and with Ezra by Joshua b.

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Malachi, Malachias or Mal'achi was a prophet

Prophet

In religion, a prophet is a person who has claimed to have encountered the supernatural or the Divinity, often one who serves as an intermediary with humanity....
in the Bible

Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
, the Jewish

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
Tanakh

Tanakh

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
Old Testament

Old Testament

David

Book of Malachi

Names for books of Judeo-Christian scripture

This brief article distinguishes the various terms used to describe Jewish and Christianity scripture. Several terms refer to the same material, although sometimes rearranged....
Old Testament

Old Testament

Book of Malachi

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
Tanakh

Tanakh

Ezra

Second Temple

Jewish Encyclopedia

Haggai

Nehemiah

Book of Nehemiah

In Rabbinic Judaism

Malachi is identified with Mordecai

Mordecai

Mordecai or Mordechai - the son of Jair , of the tribe of Benjamin, is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible....
by Rav Nachman

Rav Nachman

Rav Nachman bar Yaakov was a Judaism Talmudist who lived in Babylonia, known as an Amora of the third generation, and pupil of Samuel of Nehardea....
and with Ezra by Joshua b. Karcha (Meg. 15a). The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel to the words "By the hand of Malachi" (i. 1) gives the gloss "Whose name is called Ezra the scribe. According to So?ah 48b, when Malachi died the Holy Spirit departed from Israel. According to the tractate Rosh Hashanah 19b, he was one of the three prophets.

In Christianity

Early Christian writings

Jerome,in his preface to his commentary on Malachi, mentions that in his day the belief was current that Malachi was identical with Ezra ("Malachi Hebræi Esdram Existimant").

He also rejects and attributes to Origen

Origen

Origen was an Early Christianity scholar, theology, and one of the most distinguished of the early Church father of the Christian Church. According to tradition, he is held to have been an Ancient Egypt who taught in Alexandria, reviving the Catechetical School of Alexandria where Clement of Alexandria had taught....
the view that Malachi was an angel

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according to his name

Malakh

EtymologyHebrew "Mal'akh" derives from the Semitic Triliteral l-'-k , meaning "to send". This root is attested in Hebrew only in this noun and in the noun "Melakha" , meaning "work"....
. A tradition preserved in pseudo-Epiphanius (De Vitis Proph.) relates that Malachi was of the tribe of Zebulun

Tribe of Zebulun

The Tribe of Zebulun was one of the Israelites. At its height, the territory it occupied was at the southern end of the Galilee, with its eastern border being the Sea of Galilee, the western border being the Mediterranean Sea, the south being bordered by the Tribe of Issachar, and the north by Tribe of Asher on the western side and Tribe of...
, and was born after the Captivity. According to the same apocryphal story he died young, and was buried in his own country with his fathers.

Christian liturgy

On the Eastern Orthodox

Eastern Orthodox Church

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liturgical calendar

Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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, his feast day is January 3. He is commemorated with the other Minor prophet

Minor prophet

A minor prophet is one of the writings in the Twelve Prophets section of the Hebrew Bible, also known to Christians as the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament....
s in the Calendar of saints

Calendar of Saints (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Days of observance - 2007...
of the Armenian Apostolic Church

Armenian Apostolic Church

The Armenian Apostolic Church is the world's oldest national church and one of the most ancient Christianity communities.The official name of the church is the One Holy Universal Apostolic Orthodox Armenian Church ....
on July 31.

In contemporary Biblical criticism

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, the name is not a "nomen proprium

Proper name

"A proper name [is] a word that answers the purpose of showing what thing it is that we are talking about" writes John Stuart Mill in A System of Logic , "but not of telling anything about it"....
" and is assumed to be an abbreviation of ("messenger of Yhwh"), which conforms to the ?a?a??a? of the Septuagint and the "Malachias" of the Vulgate. The Septuagint superscription is ?? ?e??? ??????? a?t??, (by the hand of his messenger).

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and synaxarion