[see also: Hag-Zech-Mal: studies on all three books; Mal: commentaries; Mal: particular verses;
XII Prophets: general studies; XII Prophets: text transmission]
The bibliography is divided into six main sections as follows:
Behrens, A., "Das Buch Maleachi. Wo Himmel und Erde sich treffen", in E. Ballhorn – G. Steins – R. Wildgruber – U. Zwingenberger (eds.), 73 Ouvertüren. Die Buchanfänge der Bibel und ihre Botschaft (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2018) 436-443.
Coggins, R. J., Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (Old Testament Guides; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1987).
Cook, S. L., "Malachi", in M. D. Coogan (gen. ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) 2.34-41.
Hill, A. E., "Malachi, Book of", ABD IV (1992) 478-485.
Hill, A. E., "Malachi, Book of", in M. J. Boda – J. G. McConville (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press; Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press, 2012) 525-533.
Jacobs, M. R., "Malachi, Book of", in K. J. Vanhoozer (gen. ed.) – C. G. Bartholomew – D. J. Treier – N. T. Wright (assoc. eds.), Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic; London: SPCK, 2005) 474-477.
Lipinski, E. – S. D. Sperling (for the 2nd ed.), "Malachi, Book of", EncJud 13 (2007) 421-423: with an added section "In the Aggadah" on 423.
Lundbom, J. R., Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: Hebrew Prophets of the Sixth and Fifth Centuries (Cascade Companions; Eugene, OR: Cascade / Wipf & Stock, 2025).
Meinhold, A., "Maleachi / Maleachibuch", TRE 22 (1992) 6-11. [first appeared in TRE 22 / Lieferung 1 in 1991]
Pautrel, R., "Malachie, Le livre de", DBSup 5 (1957) 739-746.
Schart, A., "Malachi", in J. M. O'Brien (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets (Oxford Handbooks; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) 535-546.
Stead, M. R., Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: Return and Restoration. An Introduction and Study Guide (T&T Clark Study Guides to the Old Testament; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2022).
Wacker, M.-T., "Das Buch Maleachi. Zur Ehre Gottes, des Vaters?", in L. Schottroff – M.-T. Wacker (eds.), Kompendium feministische Bibelauslegung (Gütersloh: Christian Kaiser & Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1998) 376-383.
Watts, J. D. W., "Introduction to the Book of Malachi", RevExp 84 (1987) 373-381.
Coggins, R., "Malachi", in R. Coggins – J. H. Han, Six Minor Prophets through the Centuries: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (Blackwell Bible Commentaries, 29; Malden, MA & Oxford & Chichester (UK): Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) 186-201. See also R. Coggins, "Introduction to Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi" (127-134).
Park, Kyung-Sik, et al., "Malachi (Book and Person)", EBR 17 (2019) 576-593. Details: I. Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (Kyung-Sik Park) 576-578; II. Judaism: A. Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism (D. Polaski) 578-580 / B. Rabbinic Judaism (M. Chalmers) 580-581 / C. Medieval Judaism (E. Frazer) 581-583 / D. Modern Judaism (M. Z. Simkovich) 583-584; III. Christianity (B. German) 584-587; IV. Literature (D. Barratt) 587-588; V. Visual Arts (Jin Hee Han) 588-591; VI. Music (N. H. Petersen) 591-593.
O'Brien, J. M., "Malachi in Recent Research", CR:BS 3 (1995) 81-94.
O'Brien, J. M., "Malachi, Book of", in J. H. Hayes (ed.), Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. Vol. 2: K-Z (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1999) 110-113.
Willi-Plein, I., "Das Zwölfprophetenbuch", TRu 64 (1999) 351-395 [on Mal see esp. pp. 379-383].
Ben-Dov, J., "Speaking about God: Person Deixis in Malachi (Text and Versions)", in C. Werman (ed.), From Author to Copyist: Essays on the Composition, Redaction, and Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Zipi Talshir (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015) 173-187.
Budde, K., "Zum Text der drei letzten kleinen Propheten", ZAW 26 (1906) 1-28 [see esp. 17-28 on Mal]
Carbone, S. P. – G. Rizzi, Aggeo, Gioele, Giona, Malachia: secondo il testo ebraico masoretico, secondo la versione greca della LXX, secondo la parafrasi aramaica targumica (La Parola e la sua tradizione, 5; Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane EDB, 2001), esp. 317-508 ["Malachia": by G. Rizzi].
Carmignac, J., "Vestiges d'un péshèr de Malachie?", RevQ 4,1 [13] (1963) 97-100.
Dogniez, C., "Malachias / Maleachi", in S. Kreuzer (ed.), Einleitung in die Septuaginta (Handbuch zur Septuaginta, 1; Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2016) 552-557.
Eddinger, T. W., Malachi: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text (Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible; Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012).
Eidsvåg, G. M., "Theological Exegesis in OG-Malachi", in C. Dogniez – P. Le Moigne (eds.), Les Douze Prophètes dans la LXX. Protocoles et procédures dans la traduction grecque: stylistique, poétique et histoire (VTSup 180; Leiden: Brill, 2019) 151-164.
Fuller, R., "Text-Critical Problems in Malachi 2:10-16", JBL 110 (1991) 47-57. [largely on 4QXIIa, which contains Mal 2,10-3,24 and parts of Jonah]
Fuller, R., "The Sequence of Malachi 3:22-24 in the Greek and Hebrew Textual Traditions: Implications for the Redactional History of the Minor Prophets", in R. Albertz – J. D. Nogalski – J. Wöhrle (eds.), Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve. Methodological Foundations – Redactional Processes – Historical Insights (BZAW 433; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012) 371-379.
Hayward, R., "Saint Jerome and the Aramaic Targumim", JSS 32 (1987) 105-123.
Kruse-Blinkenberg, Lars, "The Pesitta of the Book of Malachi", ST 20 (1966) 95-119.
Kruse-Blinkenberg, L., "The Book of Malachi according to Codex Syro-Hexaplaris Ambrosianus", ST 21 (1967) 62-82.
Lang, B., Handbook of the Vulgate Bible and its Reception: Annotated Bibliography – Latin Glossary – Textual Notes = Handbuch der Vulgata und ihrer Rezeption: kommentierte Bibliographie – lateinisches Glossar – Anmerkungen zum Text (Vulgata in Dialogue, 2023 2nd Special Issue; Chur [Switzerland]: The Vulgate Institute, 2023), esp. 640 ["Malachi"].
Lange, N. R. M. de, "Some New Fragments of Aquila on Malachi and Job?", VT 30 (1980) 291-294. [discusses Cairo Geniza fragment T-S NS 309.9]
Lier, G., "Marked Nominal Forms in Targum Malachi", JSem 26 (2017) 233-250.
Munnich, O., "Traduction et traditions interprétatives: le cas de Malachie grec", in C. Dogniez – P. Le Moigne (eds.), Les Douze Prophètes dans la LXX. Protocoles et procédures dans la traduction grecque: stylistique, poétique et histoire (VTSup 180; Leiden: Brill, 2019) 176-187.
Müller, M. – U. Schorn, "Malachias. Maleachi", in M. Karrer – W. Kraus (eds.). Septuaginta Deutsch. Erläuterungen und Kommentare zum griechischen Alten Testament. Band II: Psalmen bis Daniel (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2011) 2475-2483.
Pajunen, M. S. – H. van Weissenberg, "The Book of Malachi, Manuscript 4Q76 (4QXIIa), and the Formation of the 'Book of the Twelve'", JBL 134 (2015) 731-751.
Ribera, Josep, "El targum de Malaquiás", EstBib 48 (1990) 171-197. [introd., critical edition, translation]
Vianès, L., Les Douze Prophètes, 12: Malachie. Traduction du texte grec de la Septante, introduction et notes (La Bible d'Alexandrie, 23.12; Paris: Cerf, 2011).
Álvarez Barredo, M., El libro de Malaquías: dependencia terminológica y fines teológicos (Publicaciones del Instituto Teológico de Murcia OFM. Serie Mayor, 57; Murcia: Instituto Teológico de Murcia / Espigas, 2012).
Baba, S. O. Y., Malachi's Understanding of Unfaithfulness in Covenantal Marriage Relationships (Carlisle, Cumbria: Langham Academic, 2025).
Berquist, J. L., The Social Setting of Early Postexilic Prophecy. Diss. Vanderbilt 1989. [available through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses] [see his 1989 article below]
Blake, R. D., The Rhetoric of Malachi. Diss. Union Theological Seminary, 1988. [available through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses]
Bulmerincq, A. von, Der Prophet Maleachi. Band 1: Einleitung in das Buch des Propheten Maleachi (Dorpat [Tartu]: Mattiesen, 1926) [the work appeared in four Lieferungen in the "Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Dorpatensis [Tartuensis]: B, Humaniora": i,2 (1921); iii,1 (1922); iv,2 (1923); vii,1 (1926)]. For Band II (the commentary) see here.
Fox, R. M., A Message from the Great King: Reading Malachi in Light of Ancient Persian Royal Messenger Texts from the Time of Xerxes (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, 17; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015).
Genebago, P. M., Malachi's Use of Joel's Day of the Lord: An Inner-Biblical Allusion Study (Eugene, OR: Resource Publications / Wipf & Stock, 2023).
Gibson, J. M., Covenant Continuity and Fidelity: A Study of Inner-Biblical Allusion and Exegesis in Malachi (LHB/OTS 625; London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016).
Glazier-McDonald, B., Malachi: The Divine Messenger (SBLDS 98; Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1987).
Hays, N., Malachi as a Response to Its Interlocutors. PhD diss., Baylor University, 2017. Available open-access here.
Hein, A. R., The Prophet Is the People: An Answer to "Why Elijah?" in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Literature (VTSup 199; Leiden: Brill, 2025).
Hieke, T., Kult und Ethos: Die Verschmelzung von rechtem Gottesdienst und gerechtem Handeln im Lesevorgang der Maleachischrift (SBS 208; Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 2006).
Hill, A., The Book of Malachi: Its Place in Post-Exilic Chronology Linguistically Considered. Diss. Univ. of Michigan, 1981. [available in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses]
Hugenberger, G. P., Marriage as a Covenant: A Study of Biblical Law and Ethics Governing Marriage Developed from the Perspective of Malachi (VTSup 52; Leiden: Brill, 1994).
Kellermann, U., Elia als Toralehrer und Versöhner. Mal 3,22-24 und das Motiv der Zuwendung der Herzen von Vätern und Söhnen durch Elia im frühen Judentum (Beiträge zum Verstehen der Bibel, 32; Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2017).
Krieg, M., Mutmaßungen über Maleachi. Eine Monographie (ATANT 80; Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1993).
Lauber, S., "Euch aber wird aufgehen die Sonne der Gerechtigkei" (Mal 3,20): Eine Exegese von Mal 3,13-21 (ATSAT 78; St. Ottilien: EOS, 2006).
Lear, S., Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case (FRLANT 270; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018).
Noetzel, J., Maleachi, ein Hermeneut (BZAW 467; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015).
Lescow, T., Das Buch Maleachi. Texttheorie, Auslegung, Kanontheorie. Mit einem Exkurs über Jeremia 8,8-9 (Arbeiten zur Theologie, 75; Stuttgart: Calwer, 1993).
O'Brien, J. M., Priest and Levite in Malachi (SBLDS 121; Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1990).
Renker, A., Die Tora bei Maleachi: ein Beitrag zur Bedeutungsgeschichte von tôrā im Alten Testament (Freiburger theologische Studien, 112; Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1979).
Serafini, F., L'alleanza levitica. Studio sulla berît di Dio con i sacerdoti leviti nell'Antico Testamento (Studi e ricerche, sezione biblica; Assisi: Cittadella Editrice, 2006).
Tiemeyer, L.-S., Priestly Rites and Prophetic Rage: Post-Exilic Prophetic Critique of the Priesthood (FAT II/19; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006).
Utzschneider, H., Künder oder Schreiber? Eine These zum Problem der "Schriftprophetie" auf Grund von Maleachi 1,6-2,9 (BEATAJ 19; Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1989).
Valve, L., Early Modes of Exegesis: Ideal Figures in Malachi as a Test Case (Åbo: Åbo Akademis Förlag / Åbo Akademi University Press, 2014).
Weyde, K. W., Prophecy and Teaching. Prophetic Authority, Form Problems, and the Use of Traditions in the Book of Malachi (BZAW 288; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000).
Bachmann, J., Alttestamentliche Untersuchungen (Berlin: Calvary, 1894) 109-112 ["Kaleb oder Maleachi?"].
Berquist, J. L., "The Social Setting of Malachi", BTB 19 (1989) 121-126. [see his 1989 Ph.D. diss. above]
Berry, D. K., "Malachi: A Dramatic Reading", Proceedings of the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society 4 (1984) 77-86.
Berry, D. K., "Malachi's Dual Design: The Close of the Canon and What Comes Afterward", in J. W. Watts – P. R. House (eds.), Forming Prophetic Literature: Essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in Honor of John D. W. Watts (JSOTSup 235; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 269-302.
Boecker, H. J., "Bemerkungen zur formgeschichtlichen Terminologie des Buches Maleachi", ZAW 78 (1966) 78-80.
Böhme, W., "Zu Maleachi und Haggai", ZAW 7 (1887) 210-217.
Bosshard, E. – R. G. Kratz, "Maleachi im Zwölfprophetenbuch", BN 52 (1990) 27-46.
Bossmann, D. M., "Kinship and Religious System in the Prophet Malachi", in J. Neusner – E. S. Frerichs – A. J. Levine (eds.), Religious Writings and Religious Systems. Systemic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Greco-Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism. 2 vols. (Brown Studies in Religion, 1 and 2; Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1989) 1.127-141.
Cameron, D., "A Study of Malachi", Transactions of the Glasgow University Oriental Society 8 (1938) 9-12.
Chary, T., Les Prophètes et le culte á partir de l'exil: autour du second temple. L'idéal cultuel des Prophètes exiliens et postexiliens (Bibliothèque de Théologie, Série III: Théologie Biblique, 3; Tournai: Desclée, 1955), esp. 160-189 [Chap. VI: "Le culte chez le prophète Malachie"]
Collins, J. J., "The Message of Malachi", The Bible Today 22 (1984) 209-215.
Curtis, B. G., "The Daughter of Zion Oracles and the Appendices to Malachi: Evidence on the Latter Redactors and Redactions of the Book of the Twelve", Society of Biblical Literature 1998 Seminar Papers (SBLSP 37; Atlanta, GA: SBL, 1998) 872-892. Later version entitled "The Zion-Daughter Oracles: Evidence on the Identity and Ideology of the Late Redactors of the Book of the Twelve", in J. D. Nogalski – M. A. Sweeney (eds.), Reading and Hearing the Book of the Twelve (SBLSymS 15; Atlanta, GA: SBL, 2000) 166-184.
Drinkard, J. F., "The Socio-Historical Setting of Malachi", RevExp 84 (1984) 383-390.
Elliger, K., "Maleachi und die kirchliche Tradition", in E. Würthwein – O. Kaiser (eds.), Tradition und Situation. Studien zur alttestamentliche Prophetie (Artur Weiser zum 70. Geburstag am 18.11.1963 dargebracht von Kollegen, Freunden und Schülern) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963) 43-48.
Eybers, I. H., "Malachi – The Messenger of the Lord", Theologia Evangelica [Pretoria] 3 (1970) 12-20.
Fischer, J. A., "Notes on the Literary Form and Message of Malachi", CBQ 34 (1972) 315-320.
Garland, D. E., "A Biblical View of Divorce", RevExp 84 (1984) 419-432.
Graffy, A., A Prophet Confronts His People. The Disputation Speech in the Prophets (AnBib 104; Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1984), esp. 15-17 ["Disputation Speeches in Malachi?"]
Gray, S. W., "Useless Fires: Worship in the Time of Malachi", Southwestern Journal of Theology 30 (1988) 35-41.
Halévy, J., Recherches bibliques: l'histoire des origines d'après la Genèse. Tome II: Genèse, XXV,19-L,26 (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901) 183-196 ["Les petits prophètes: Malachias"].
Heflin, J. N. B., "The Prophet Malachi, His World, and His Book", Southwestern Journal of Theology 30 (1988) 5-11.
Hendrix, J. D., "'You Say': Confrontational Dialogue in Malachi", RevExp 84 (1984) 465-477.
Hill, A. E., "Dating the Book of Malachi: A Linguistic Reexamination", in C. L. Meyers – M. O'Connor (eds.), The Word of the Lord Shall Go Forth: Essays in Honor of David Noel Freedman in Celebratioin of his Sixtieth Birthday (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1983) 77-89. [see above for his diss.]
Holtzmann, O., "Der Prophet Maleachi und der Ursprung des Pharisäerbundes", Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 29 (1931) 1-21. [the whole of Vol. 29 is available here ]
Homerski, J., "'Tag Jahwes' bei dem Propheten Maleachi", Collectanea theologica 64 (1994) 5-17.
Hoonacker, A. Van, "Le rapprochement entre le Deutéronome et Malachie. Une notice inédite de A. Van Hoonacker (1908)", ETL 59 (1983) 86-90.
Keller, C.-A., "Religionswissenschaftliche Betrachtungen zu Maleachis Kritik an der Opferpraxis seiner Zeit", in A. Schenker (ed.), Studien zu Opfer und Kult im Alten Testament: mit einer Bibliographie 1969-1991 zum Opfer in der Bibel (FAT 3; Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 1992) 79-91.
Keown, G. L., "Messianism in the Book of Malachi", RevExp 84 (1984) 443-451.
Klein, R. W., "A Valentine for Those Who Fear Yahweh: The Book of Malachi", CurTM 13 (1986) 143-152.
Lescow, T., "Dialogische Strukturen in den Streitreden des Buches Maleachi", ZAW 102 (1990) 194-212.
Levy, L., "Der Prophet Maleachi", in Festschrift zum 75 jährigen Bestehen des jüdisch-theologischen Seminars Fraenkelscher Stiftung (Breslau: Marcus, 1929) Band II, 273-284.
Mason, R., Preaching the Tradition. Homily and Hermeneutics After the Exile, Based on the 'Addresses' in Chronicles, the 'Speeches' in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah and the Post-Exilic Prophetic Books (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), esp. 235-256 ["The Book of Malachi"].
McKenzie, S. L. – H. N. Wallace, "Covenant Themes in Malachi", CBQ 45 (1983) 549-563.
Meinhold, A., "Dialogische Strukturen in den Streitreden des Buches Maleachi", ZAW 102 (1990) 194-212.
Meinhold, A., "Zustand und Zukunft des Gottesvolkes im Maleachibuch", in A. Meinhold – R. Lux (eds.), Gottesvolk. Beiträge zu einem Thema biblischer Theologie [Fs. Siegfried Wagner] (Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1991) 175-192.
Meinhold, A., "Die theologischen Vorsprüche in den Diskussionsworten des Maleachibuches", in P. Mommer – W. H. Schmidt – H. Strauß (eds.), Gottes Recht als Lebensraum. Festschrift für Hans Jochen Boecker (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993) 197-209.
Nogalski, J. D., Redactional Processes in the Book of the Twelve (BZAW 218; Berlin: De Gruyter, 1993), esp. 182-212 ["Malachi"].
O'Brien, J. M., "Historical Inquiry as Liberator and Master: Malachi as a Post-Exilic Document", in J. M. O'Brien – F. L. Horton (eds.), The Yahweh/Baal Confrontation and Other Studies in Biblical Literature and Archaeology. Essays in Honor of Emmett Willard Hamrick (Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity, 35; Macon, GA: Mellen Biblical Press, 1995) 57-79.
O'Brien, J. M., "On Saying 'No' to a Prophet", Semeia 72 (1995) 111-124. Reprinted in A. Brenner (ed.), Prophets and Daniel (A Feminist Companion to the Bible, Second Series; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) 206-217: with a new "self-response" on 218-219.
O'Brien, J. M., "Judah as Wife and Husband: Deconstructing Gender in Malachi", JBL 115 (1996) 241-250.
Oesch, J. M., "Die Bedeutung der Tora für Israel nach dem Buch Maleachi", in E. Zenger (ed.), Die Tora als Kanon für Juden und Christen (HBS 10; Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1996) 169-211.
Peckham, B., History and Prophecy. The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions (ABRL; New York: Doubleday, 1993), esp. 793-802 [on Malachi].
Petersen, D. L., "The Temple in Persian Period Prophetic Texts", in P. R. Davies (ed.), Second Temple Studies, 1: Persian Period (JSOTSup 117; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) 125-144.
Petersen, D. L., "The Temple in Persian Period Prophetic Texts", BTB 21 (1991) 88-96.
Petersen, D. L., "Malachi: The Form-Critical Task", in K.-D. Schunck – M. Augustin (eds.), "Lasset uns Brücken bauen...". Collected Communications to the XVth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Cambridge 1995 (BEATAJ 42; Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1998) 269-274.
Pfeiffer, E., "Die Disputationsworte im Buche Maleachi. (Ein Beitrag zur formgeschichtlichen Struktur)", EvT 12 (1959) 546-568.
Redditt, P. L., "The Book of Malachi in Its Social Setting", CBQ 56 (1994) 240-255.
Redditt, P. L., "Zechariah 9-14, Malachi, and the Redaction of the Book of the Twelve", in J. W. Watts – P. R. House (eds.), Forming Prophetic Literature: Essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in Honor of John D. W. Watts (JSOTSup 235; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) 245-268.
Rofé, A., "The Onset of Sects in Postexilic Judaism: Neglected Evidence from the Septuagint, Trito-Isaiah, Ben Sira, and Malachi", in J. Neusner – E. S. Frerichs – P. Borgen – R. A. Horsley (eds.), The Social World of Formative Christianity and Judaism: Essays in Tribute to Howard Clark Kee (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress, 1988) 39-49.
Rogerson, J. W., "The Social Background of the Book of Malachi", in P. J. Harland – C. T. R. Hayward (eds.), New Heaven and New Earth — Prophecy and the Millennium. Essays in Honour of Anthony Gelston (VTSup 77; Leiden: Brill, 1999) 171-179.
Sievers, E., "Alttestamentliche Miscellen, 4: Zu Maleachi", in Königlich Sächsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Philologisch-Historische Klasse: Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königl.-Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Band 57,4,1; Leipzig: Teubner, 1905) 144-166.
Smith, R. L., "The Shape of Theology in the Book of Malachi", Southwestern Journal of Theology 30 (1988) 22-27.
Snyman, S. D., "Eschatology in the Book of Malachi", OTE N.S. 1/2 (1988) 63-77.
Snyman, S. D., "Antitheses in the Book of Malachi", JNSL 16 (1990) 173-178.
Steck, O. H., Der Abschluß der Prophetie im Alten Testament. Ein Versuch zur Frage der Vorgeschichte des Kanons (BThSt 17; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1991), esp. 30-60 [on Malachi].
Tate, M. E., "Questions for Priests and People in Malachi 1:2-2:16", RevExp 84 (1984) 391-407.
Tilley, W. Clyde, "A Biblical Approach to Stewardship", RevExp 84 (1984) 433-442.
Tillman, W., "Key Ethical Issues in Malachi", Southwestern Journal of Theology 30 (1987) 42-47.
Torrey, C. C., "The Prophecy of 'Malachi'", JBL 17 (1898) 1-15.
Utzschneider, H., "Die Schriftprophetie und die Frage nach dem Ende der Propheten. Überlegungen anhand von Mal 1,6-2,16", ZAW 104 (1992) 377-394.
Wallis, G., "Wesen und Struktur der Botschaft Maleachis", in F. Maass (ed.), Das ferne und das nahe Wort. Festschrift Leonhard Rost zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebenjahres am 30. November 1966 gewidmet (BZAW 105; Berlin: Töpelmann, 1967) 229-237.
Welch, A. C., Post-Exilic Judaism. [The Baird Lectures, 1934] (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1935) 113-125 [his discussion of the book of Malachi].
Wendland, E., "Linear and Concentric Patterns in Malachi", Bible Translator 36 (1985) 108-121.
Winckler, H., Altorientalische Forschungen. Zweite Reihe, Band III (1900) (Leipzig: Pfeiffer, 1901) 531-539 ["Maleachi"].
Álvarez Barredo, M., "Tiempo de la actividad profética de Malaquías", Carthaginensia 269 (2010) 1-28.
Assis, E., "Structure and Meaning in the Book of Malachi", in J. Day (ed.), Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (LHB/OTS 531; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010) 354-369.
Assis, E., "Mutual Recriminations: God and Israel in the Book of Malachi", SJOT 26 (2012) 212-219. The same article was published again in SJOT 28 (2014) 36-43 (perhaps with corrections?).
Assis, E., "The Reproach of the Priests (Malachi 1:6-2:9) within Malachi's Conception of Covenant", in R. J. Bautch – G. N. Knoppers (eds.), Covenant in the Persian Period: From Genesis to Chronicles (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015) 271-290.
Athas, G., "The Failure of Davidic Hope? Configuring Theodicy in Zechariah and Malachi in Support of a Davidic Kingdom", in G. Athas – B. M. Stovell – D. Timmer – C. M. Toffelmire (eds.), Theodicy and Hope in the Book of the Twelve (LHB/OTS 705; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021) 226-250.
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