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Ezra (fl. 480–440 BCE) [a][b] was an important Jewish scribe (sofer) and priest (kohen) in the early Second Temple period. In the Greek Septuagint, the name is rendered as Ésdrās (Ἔσδρας), from which the Latin name Esdras comes. His name is probably a shortened Aramaic translation of the Hebrew name עזריהו (Azaryahu ...
Ezra 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] or the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and book of Nehemiah as one book. [2] Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra-Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles, [3] but modern scholars ...
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v. t. e. 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]
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. [3]: 37. 2 Esdras forms a part of the canon of Scripture in the ...
According to Jewish tradition the Great Assembly (Hebrew: כְּנֶסֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה, romanized: Knesset HaGedolah, also translated as Great Synagogue or Synod) was an assembly of possibly 120 scribes, sages, and prophets, which existed from the early Second Temple period (around 516 BCE) to the early Hellenistic period (which began in the region with Alexander's conquest in 332 ...
Ezra is regarded and quoted as the type of person most competent and learned in the Law ( Torah ). [10] The rabbis associate his name with several important institutions. It was he who ordained that three men should read ten verses from the Torah on Monday and Thursday and on Shabbat afternoon; [11] that the "curses" in Leviticus should be read ...
15. Ezra 7 is the seventh chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] or the book of Ezra–Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and book of Nehemiah as one book. [2] Jewish tradition states that Ezra is the author of Ezra–Nehemiah as well as the Book of Chronicles, [3] but modern ...