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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Priest and Levite in Malachi</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>O'Brien, Julia M.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Atlanta, Ga</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Scholars Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1990</dateIssued>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>xiv, 164 p.  ;  22 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>I. Malachi and the priesthood -- Overviews of the history of the priesthood -- Traditionalist view -- Wellhausen and the developmental model -- After Wellhausen -- Synthesis of histories of the priesthood -- Understandings of Malachi's view of the priesthood -- II. Lewi and Kohen: A syntactical study -- Problem -- Methodology -- Occurrences -- Comparison of the descriptions -- III. The form of the book of Malachi -- From criticism and the prophets -- The unity and integrity of the book -- Suggestions of form -- The Rib form -- Malachi as rib -- The significance of this thesis -- Implications for the book's unity -- The Sitz im Leben of the Rib -- Significance of form for priest and Levite in Malachi -- Conclusion -- IV. The sources used by the book of Malachi -- Introduction to the problem -- Deuteronomy and the priestly code -- General language -- Technical language -- Cultic institutions -- Language for describing priests -- Conclusions regarding D and P -- Other biblical traditions -- The canon known to Malachi -- Conclusions -- V. Malachi and the priesthood in context -- Date of the book -- Historical references -- Similarities to the historical situation of Ezra/ Nehemiah -- Linguistic analysis -- Quotes from other literature -- Genre and style -- Conclusions regarding date -- Malachi's description of the priesthood compared with other literature -- Deuteronomistic history -- Jeremiah and Ezekiel -- Miscellaneous prophetic writings -- Haggai and Zechariah 1-8; Zech. 9-14 -- Ezra and Nehemiah -- Chronicles -- Old Testament pseudepigrapha -- Qumran -- Conclusions regarding context.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Julia M. O'Brien</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Bible. -- Malachie -- Critique, interprétation, etc.Maleachi (Buch)</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BS1675.2  .O27 1990</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">97815554043901555404391</identifier>
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