Verhoef's study on the Books of Haggai and Malachi is part of The New International Commentary on the Old Testament, a series which devotes considerable care to achieving a balance between technical information and homiletic-devotional interpretation. The commentary itself is based on the author's own translation of the Hebrew text.

"The Persian Period proved particularly challenging to the small community living in Yehud. Expectations of a glorious restoration had waned as had their hope in the justice and faithfulness of God. The prophet Malachi speaks to such a moment, calling for a renewed sense of fidelity to their God, a fidelity grounded in right worship and exhibited through faithful living. With careful attention to the Hebrew text, Tucker highlights the powerful rhetoric...

"The book of Malachi fittingly sits in Christian Bibles as the last book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes and applies. Yet it also looks forward to the New Testament with its promises of the coming reign of God. A striking feature of the book is the way in which every word of God is contradicted or questioned by his people. God's persistence in speaking to them is a clear picture of sin and grace in close proximity. Furthermore,...

"The last few chapters of the Old Testament are arguably the most difficult texts for the interpreter of the Old Testament. In this commentary, David Petersen takes on the task of examining this prophetic literature of the Second Temple period as he explicates Zechariah 9-11, Zechariah 12-14, and Malachi."--BOOK JACKET. "Treating these chapters as three separate collections, Petersen gives an extensive overview of these books. This commentary will...