Editing Book of Haggai (section)

== Authorship ==
The Book of Haggai is named after the prophet [[Haggai]] whose prophecies are recorded in the book. The authorship of the book is uncertain. Some presume that Haggai wrote the book himself but he is repeatedly referred to in the third person which makes it unlikely that he wrote the text: it is more probable that the book was written by a disciple of Haggai who sought to preserve the content of Haggai's spoken prophecies.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

There is no biographical information given about the prophet in the Book of Haggai.  Haggai's name is derived from the Hebrew verbal root ''hgg'', which means "to make a pilgrimage". W. Sibley Towner suggests that Haggai's name might come "from his single-minded effort to bring about the reconstruction of that destination of ancient Judean pilgrims, the Temple in Jerusalem".<ref>Towner, W. Sibley, ''The Harper Collins Study Bible''. HarperCollins Publishers. 2006. p. 1265.</ref>