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Ezra (fl. fifth or fourth century BCE) [1] [a] [b] is the main character of the Book of Ezra. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was an important Jewish scribe and priest in the early Second Temple period. In the Greek Septuagint, the name is rendered as Ésdrās (Ἔσδρας), from which the Latin name Esdras comes.
Ezra's priestly heritage (verses 1–5, cf. 1 Chronicles 6) connects him to the great priests in history (ultimately to Phinehas, Eleazar, and Aaron the high priests) to validate his authority, before presenting his devotion and integrity (verse 6). [17] Verses 7–10 contains the summary of Ezra's journey. [18]
The section comprising chapters 7 to 10 mainly describes of activities of Ezra the scribe and the priest. [5] This chapter follows Ezra's journey to Jerusalem and includes a genealogy of those returning with him (parallel to chapter 2 ).
This editor also added Ezra 1–5. The combined text was then further developed by priestly circles who stressed Temple over Torah, transformed Ezra from scribe to priest, and stressed the primacy of the Babylonian returnees over those who had remained in the land, a distinction that had not appeared in the original Ezra material.
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 ]
The section comprising chapters 7 to 10 mainly describes the activities of Ezra the scribe and the priest. [5] This chapter and the next deal with the problem of intermarriage, starting with the introduction of the crisis, then Ezra's public mourning and prayer of shame. [5] J.
The original text of this chapter is in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 18 verses. Daniel Smith-Christopher argues that "the presence of Ezra and the virtual absence of Nehemiah support the argument that chapter 8 is among [several] displaced chapters from the Ezra material", and suggests that "the original place for [this chapter] would logically have been between Ezra 8 and 9".
Chapter three states: "I, Salathiel, who am also called Ezra" . For this reason, the work is also sometimes known as Ezra Shealtiel. Ezra the scribe and Shealtiel lived many years apart, and Zerubbabel, Shealtiel's son, was the one who returned to Jerusalem. Also, there is no credible historical record that suggests that Ezra was ever called ...