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The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible which formerly included the Book of Nehemiah in a single book, commonly distinguished in scholarship as Ezra–Nehemiah. The two became separated with the first printed rabbinic bibles of the early 16th century, following late medieval Latin Christian tradition.[1] Composed in Hebrew and Aramaic, its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity. Together with the Book of Nehemiah, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible.[2]
Book of Ezra is divided into two parts: the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great (538 BC) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius I (515 BC); the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from marriage with non-Jews.
In the book's recurring narrative pattern, the God of Israel three times inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from among the Jews to carry out a mission: the first to rebuild the Temple, the second to purify the Jewish community, and the third to seal the holy city behind a wall. This third mission, that of Nehemiah, is not part of the Book of Ezra. The theological program of the book explains the many problems its chronological structure presents.[3] It probably appeared in its earliest version around 399 BC, and continued to be revised and edited for several centuries before being accepted as scriptural in the early Christian era.[4]
^Bogaert, Pierre-Maurice (2000). "Les livres d'Esdras et leur numérotation dans l'histoire du canon de la Bible latin". Revue Bénédictine. 110 (1–2): 5–26. doi:10.1484/J.RB.5.100750.
^Albright, William (1963). The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra: An Historical Survey. Harpercollins College Div. ISBN 0-06-130102-7.
^Throntveit, Mark A., "Ezra-Nehemiah" (John Knox Press, 1992) pp.1–3
^Blenkinsopp, Joseph, "Judaism, the first phase" (Eerdmans, 2009) p.87
Ezra or Esdras (/ˈɛzrə/; Hebrew: עֶזְרָא, ʿEzrāʾ; fl. 480–440 BCE), also called Ezra the Scribe (עֶזְרָא הַסּוֹפֵר ʿEzrāʾ hasSōfēr) in Chazalic literature...
Esdras, or Latin Ezra) is an apocalyptic book in some English versions of the Bible. Tradition ascribes it to Ezra, a scribe and priest of the fifth century...
the BookofEzra as Ezra–Nehemiah, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible. The original core of the book, the...
(Ezra 7) as having commissioned Ezra, a kohen and scribe, by means of a letter of decree to take charge of the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the...
tradition states that the book was written by Ezra the scribe. The original manuscript of this book is lost, as are many centuries worth of copies. The oldest...
for 3 Ezra, and 'Latin Esdras' for 4 Ezra, 5 Ezra and 6 Ezra together. Ambrose of Milan referred to 1 Esdras as the 'first bookof Esdras', Ezra–Nehemiah...
Bibles, they usually follow the two Books of Kings and precede Ezra–Nehemiah, the last history-oriented bookof the Protestant Old Testament. The Chronicles...
Catholic bibles as the sixth chapter of Baruch). Jeremiah is mentioned by name in Chronicles and the BookofEzra, both dating from the later Persian period...
Battle of Opis in 539 BCE, exiled Judeans were permitted by the Persians to return to Judah. According to the biblical BookofEzra, construction of the...
and two of Chronicles, Job, and Tobias, and Esther, and Judith, and the two books of Maccabees, and the two ofEzra [Ezra, Nehemiah]...one bookof the Psalms...
Al-Tabari and Masudi's placement of events. Ahasuerus is also given as the name of a King of Persia in the BookofEzra. Modern commentators associate him...
Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516 BC "The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign...
'Zion returnees') is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible, in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah—subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire—were...
corroborative evidence of Cyrus' policy of the repatriation of the Jewish people following their Babylonian captivity (an act that the BookofEzra attributes to...
may have had a Babylonian style name because of his interaction with the Babylonian court. The BookofEzra begins with Cyrus the Great entrusting the Temple...
sacrilege. The BookofEzra narrates a story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus, in which Cyrus proclaims: "All the kingdoms of the earth...
style. In the prologue to Ezra Jerome states that the third book and fourth bookofEzra are apocryphal; while the two books ofEzra in the Vetus Latina version...
Ezra Bridger is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, voiced by Taylor Gray. He is featured as the main protagonist of the animated series...
Ezra 6 is the sixth chapter of the BookofEzra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or the bookofEzra–Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats...
Ezra 1 is the first chapter of the BookofEzra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or the bookofEzra–Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats...
Ezra 4:1–6 "the enemies of Judah and Benjamin" asked to help build the temple, and when this was denied hired counselors to frustrate the people of Judah...
book as do Ezra and Nehemiah which form a single unit entitled Ezra–Nehemiah. (In citations by chapter and verse, however, the Hebrew equivalents of "Nehemiah"...
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