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Traditional writer of the Book of Malachi

For the prophetic book, see Book of Malachi.

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For other uses, see Malachi (disambiguation).

Malachi or Malachias (; Hebrew: מַלְאָכִי‎, Modern: Malʾaḵī, Tiberian: Malʾāḵī, "my messenger") is the name used by the author of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Nevi'im (Prophets) section of the Tanakh.

It is possible that Malachi is not a proper name, because it means "messenger"; it has been assumed to be a pseudonym. According to Jewish tradition, the real identity of Malachi is Ezra the scribe.

Most scholars regard The Book of Malachi as the result of multiple stages of redaction;^[1] most of its text originated in the Persian period, with the oldest stratum from around 500 BCE and redactions into the Hellenistic period.^[2]

Identity

The editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia implied that Malachi, also known as Malachias, prophesied after Haggai and Zechariah and s