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The Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, also known as the Word and Revelation of Esdras, is a pseudepigraphal work written in the name of the biblical scribe Ezra. It survived in only two Greek copies and is dated between the 2nd century and the 9th century AD. According to R. H. Charles, the text of the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra was influenced by the ...
Jewish Apocalypse of Ezra, more commonly known as 4 Esdras or 2 Esdras. Greek Apocalypse of Ezra; Syriac Apocalypse of Ezra; Ethiopic Apocalypse of Ezra; See also
The Thirty-nine Articles that define the doctrines of the Church of England follow the naming convention of the Clementine Vulgate.Likewise, the Vulgate numbering is often used by modern scholars, who nevertheless use the name Ezra to avoid confusion with the Greek and Slavonic enumerations: 1 Ezra (Ezra), 2 Ezra (Nehemiah), 3 Ezra (Esdras A/1 Esdras), 4 Ezra (chapters 3–14 of 4 Esdras), 5 ...
1 Esdras (Ancient Greek: Ἔσδρας Αʹ), also Esdras A, Greek Esdras, Greek Ezra, or 3 Esdras, is the ancient Greek Septuagint version of the biblical Book of Ezra in use within the early church, and among many modern Christians with varying degrees of canonicity. 1 Esdras is substantially similar to the standard Hebrew version of Ezra–Nehemiah, with the passages specific to the career ...
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.
Apocalypse of Zephaniah (mostly lost, original form c. late 1st cent. BC) 4 Ezra (original Jewish form after 70 AD, final Christian additions later) Greek Apocalypse of Ezra (present form is Christian c. 9th cent. AD with both Jewish and Christian sources) Vision of Ezra (a Christian document dating from 4th to 7th cent. AD)
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. Like the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, the work is clearly Christian, and features several apostles being seen in heaven. However, the text is significantly shorter than ...
The start of the Apocalypse (indicated by red ink) in the manuscript Mingana 11. The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ezra is a set of visions of the end times composed in the Syriac language sometime between the 7th and 12th centuries. It is a pseudepigraphon falsely attributed to Ezra. It is a short text of about seven manuscript pages.