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2 Esdras, also called 4 Esdras, Latin Esdras, or Latin Ezra, is an apocalyptic book in some English versions of the Bible. [a] [b] [2] Tradition ascribes it to Ezra, a scribe and priest of the fifth century BC, whom the book identifies with the sixth-century figure Shealtiel.
According to R. H. Charles, the text of the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra was influenced by the book of 2 Esdras. The extant version of the Greek Apocalypse is thought to have undergone extensive reworking, if not having been totally written by, Christian editors, mentioning the Apostles Paul and John, King Herod, etc.
The triple-headed eagle design used by Michael I of Russia. [1] Title page of Lado (1911). The three-headed eagle, also called triple-headed eagle, is a mythological or heraldic bird, as it were an augmented version of the double-headed eagle. A three-headed eagle is mentioned in the apocryphal Latin Ezra, featuring in a dream by the high ...
In the prologue to Ezra Jerome states that the third book and fourth book of Ezra are apocryphal; while the two books of Ezra in the Vetus Latina version, translating 1 Esdras and 2 Esdras of the Septuagint, are 'variant examples' of the same Hebrew original. [22] In his prologue to the books of Solomon, he says: [23]
The Vision of Ezra (Latin: Visio Beati Esdrae, "Vision of the Blessed Ezra") [1] is an ancient apocryphal text purportedly written by the biblical scribe Ezra.The earliest surviving manuscripts, composed in Latin, date to the 11th century AD, although textual peculiarities strongly suggest that the text was originally written in Greek.
The latter was "the oldest and most popular of Ezra pseudepigrapha" and its portrayal of Ezra, rather than that of the biblical Book of Ezra, is the basis for the Syriac Apocalypse. [30] The Apocalypse draws heavily on the Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel , [ 2 ] [ 8 ] [ 25 ] but also the four canonical Gospels , [ 2 ] [ 31 ] the Book ...
Remains from all 67 victims of the midair collision over Washington, D.C., that sent an American Airlines regional plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashing into the Potomac River have been ...
The text begins, "This is what God said to Ezra." [8] It is a piece of pseudepigrapha and not an authentic work of the biblical Ezra. [4] [9] It draws its inspiration and its view of Ezra as a prophet from the apocryphal book 4 Ezra. [10] It also depends on the Book of Jubilees and 1 Enoch.