Category:Ezra (subject)
Ezra was a priest and scribe who came to Judah from Babylon during the Persian period.
Overview
According to 1 Esdras, Ezra-Nehemiah and Josephus, the priest and scribe Ezra came to Judah with an official mission to impose "the law of Moses and the law of the King" to all Jews "beyond the River." He also enforced the prohibition of marriage with women of foreign origin and insisted upon the dismissal of such wives.
Ezra came to Jerusalem in the seventh year of Artaxerses, but it is not clear which king of this name is intended, whether Artaxerses I or Artaxerses II. Also his relationship with Nehemiah is confused. The Nehemiah and the Ezra traditions developed autonomously. The first-person Memoirs of Nehemiah makes no reference to Ezra, as 1 Esdras makes no reference to Nehemiah. The early 2nd century Jewish author Ben Sira praises Nehemiah, but makes no mention of Ezra. The two traditions chronologically overlap in Ezra-Nehemiah, but there is no real contact between the two characters, if not in harmonizing additions to the Nehemiah narrative (12:26,36). In Josephus Nehemiah came after the death of Ezra.
The later book of 4 Ezra turned Ezra into a "prophet" and the recipient of the 24 public books and 70 hidden writings to be kept secret for the "wise."
Ezra in ancient sources
1 Esdras
Josephus
Ezra-Nehemiah
4 Ezra
Ezra in literature & the arts
- See Ezra (arts)
Ezra in scholarship
Studies on Ezra focus on three major aspects:
(a) the historicity of Ezra;
(b) the literature attributed to Ezra; and
(c) the development of traditions on Ezra in Judaism and Christianity.
- See Ezra (research)
References
- Josephus’ Portrait of Ezra / Louis H. Feldman / In: Vetus Testamentum 43.2 (1993) 190-214
- Ezra: Priest and Scribe / Reinhard Gregor Kratz / In: Scribes, Sages and Seers (2008 Perdue), edited volume, 163-188
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Pages in category "Ezra (subject)"
The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
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- De fatis monarchiae romanae somnium vaticanum Esdrae prophetae (1553 Bibliander), book
- An Epistolary Discourse, Concerning the Books of Ezra, Genuine and Spurious (1722 Lee), book
- Disputatio critica de Ezrae libro apocrypho vulgo quarto dicto (1839 Vlis), book
- Das dritte Buch Esra, die Zusätze zum Buch Esther und Daniel, das Gebet des Manasse, das Buch Baruch und der Brief des Jeremia (1851 Fritzsche), book
- Esra der Schriffgelehrte (1866 Philippson), novel
- The Missing Fragment of the Latin Translation of the Fourth Book of Ezra (1875 Bensly), book
- Néhémie et Esdras: nouvelle hypothèse sur la chronologie de l'époque de la restauration (1890 Hoonacker), book
- Der Prophet Esra (1900 Gunkel), book
- Le problème eschatologique dans le IVe livre d'Esdras (1906 Vaganay), book
- The Ezra-Apocalypse (1912 Box), book
- IV Ezra: A Study in the Development of Universalism (1929 Montefiore), book
- II Ezra (the Ezra Apocalypse) (1933 Oesterley), book
- Studien zu dem Buche Ezra-Nehemia (1964-1965 Mowinckel), book
- Ezra, Nehemiah (1965 Myers), book
- Responsibility for Evil in the Theodicy of IV Ezra (1977 Thompson), book
- The First and Second Books of Esdras (1979 Coggins, Knibb), book
- The Armenian Version of IV Ezra (1979 Stone), book
- Features of the Eschatology of IV Ezra (1989 Stone), book
- 2 Esdras (1995 Longenecker), book
- Liber Ezrae Quartus (1998 Nápole), book
- Biblical Figures Outside the Bible (1998 Stone/Bergren), edited volume
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- Text und Textgeschichte des 2. Esrabuches (2003 Hanhart), book
- Erken dönem Yahudi tarihi: Yahudiligin mimari Ezra (2007 Kurt), book
- Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra (2008 Hogan), book
- Judaism, the First Phase: The Place of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Origins of Judaism (2009 Blenkinsopp), book
- 1 Esdras (2012 Bird), book
- Keepers of the Covenant (2014 Austin), novel
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