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The disputation speeches contain some twenty-six “arguments.” These differ sharply in formal and semantic aspects and are often brought together in ways that create strong tensions. It is improbable, therefore, that they all stem from the same author.¹⁸ The later additions acknowledged by most commentators include Mal 1:1, 1:11–14, 3:1b–4, and 3:22–24 [4:4–6 ET], but in fact we should reckon with substantially more editing.¹⁹ Here I will briefly summarize the hypothesis of the work’s redaction history worked out in this commentary. Before the Malachi document was incorporated into the Book of the Twelve Prophets, it existed as an independent document. Over the course of its reworking to make it part of the Book of the Twelve, some additions were inserted into the Malachi document to interlock it within the whole. Good examples are the appeal to repentance in Mal 3:7, probably stemming from the same hand as the almost identical call to repentance in Zech 1:3 and the quotation from Joel 3:4b in Mal 3:23b.