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:''For the Bristol band, see Malakai (band) For the Northern Irish singer songwriter, see Malachi Cush . For the Iraq War protester, see Malachi Ritscher . See also Book Of Malachi For the Christian saint, see Saint Malachy and the attributed Prophecy Of The Popes . There are other people named Malachy . Malachi or '''Mal'achi''' () was a prophet in the Bible , the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh . He was the first of the , and is the last book of the Neviim (prophets) section in the Jewish Tanakh . No allusion is made to him by 13:23). IN RABBINIC JUDAISM Malachi is identified with Mordecai by Rav Nachman 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 Soṭah 48b, when Malachi died the Holy Spirit departed from Israel. According to Rosh Hashanah 19b, he was one of the three prophets concerning whom there are certain traditions with regard to the fixing of the Jewish calendar. IN CHRISTIANITY Early Christian writings Jerome, in his preface to his commentary on Malachi'' Prefaces to the Commentaries on the Minor Prophets. '', and his followers believe that (according to his name) he was an angel. But we reject this view altogether, lest we be compelled to accept the doctrine of the fall of souls from heaven.'', 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 the view that Malachi was an Angel according to His Name . A tradition preserved in Pseudo-Epiphanius ("De Vitis Proph.") relates that Malachi was of the Tribe Of Zebulun , 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 Liturgical Calendar , his feast day is January 3 . He is commemorated with the other Minor Prophet s in the Calendar Of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31 . IN CONTEMPORARY BIBLICAL CRITICISM According to the editors of the 1897 , the name is not a "nomen proprium" and is assumed to be an abbreviation of ("messenger of Yhwh"), which conforms to the Μαλαχίας of the Septuagint and the "Malachias" of the Vulgate. The Septuagint superscription is ὲν χειρὶ ἀγγήλου αὐτοῦ, (by the hand of his messenger). states that Zech. 9-14 and Malachi are anonymous, and were, therefore, placed at the end of the prophetical books. Mal. 3:1 Malachi 3:1 : ''Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:...'' shows almost conclusively that the term was misunderstood, and that the proper name originated in a misconception of the word. The consensus of opinion seems to point to 432-424 B.C. as the time of the composition of the book. This was the time between the first and second visits of Nehemiah to Jerusalem. REFERENCES
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