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The collection of disputation speeches was then included in the Book of the Twelve Prophets. Some of the redactional additions reveal that they are related to comparable redactional insertions in other writings among the Twelve. From this, we may conclude that those additions were included in the course of the integration of the Malachi document into the Book of the Twelve, or that they presuppose that incorporation and are intended to strengthen it. Additions that belong to the context of the Book of the Twelve Prophets are:

– The transfer of the genre designation משׂא from Zech 9:1 and 12:1 to Mal 1:1.

– The genre designation דבר יהוה, which links to the superscriptions of the preexilic writings (Hos 1:1; Joel 1:1; Mic 1:1; Zeph 1:1) and is probably associated with the ’āmar Yhwh formulae. This indicates the effort to depict the disputation speeches as direct words of God.

– Mal 1:4–5 follows the terminology of the Obadiah document.

– Mal 1:11 links to Zech 14:9 inasmuch as the verse describes Yhwh’s royal rule over the nations.

– The references to the day of Yhwh (Mal 3:2; 3:23b [4:5b ET]) take up the words of Joel (Joel 3:4b).

– The insertion of מלאך יהוה, “messenger of Yhwh” (in Mal 2:7; cf. also “messenger of the covenant” in 3:1bβ) may well be associated with the similar additions in Zech 1:11aα, 12aα1; 3:1aβ, 5bβ, 6; Hag 1:13.

– The call to repentance in Mal 3:7 belongs with the same expression in Zech 1:3.

– The judgment of purification in Mal 3:2–3 extends Zech 13:9.

– The fearers of Yhwh in Mal 3:16, 20a [4:2a ET] are connected with the Jonah document (Jon 1:16).