480 – 440 BC ), also called Ezra the Scribe ( Hebrew: עזרא הסופר, Ezra ha-Sofer ) and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra.

* Jewish Encyclopedia: Ezra the Scribe

Regular public reading of the Torah was introduced by Ezra the Scribe after the return of the Jewish people from the Babylonian captivity ( c. 537 BCE ), as described in the Book of Nehemiah.

Professor Shapiro lists the many medieval Rabbis discuss changes and additions that occurred during the time of Ezra the Scribe in his work ' The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides ' Thirteen Principles Reappraised '.

After the building of the Second Temple in the time of Ezra the Scribe, the houses of study and worship remained important secondary institutions in Jewish life.

The language has been known as " Hebrew " in English since the 11th century, from Old French Ebreu, in turn from Latin Hebraeus and Greek Hebraios, ultimately a loan from " Assyrian lettering " ( Ktav Ashuri ), the " square-script ", by Ezra the Scribe following the Babylonian Exile.

The earliest surviving Hebrew inscription, the Gezer calendar, dates from the 10th century BCE ; it was written in the so-called Paleo-Hebrew alphabet ( ktav ivrit ), which continued to be used through the time of Solomon's Temple until changed to the new " Assyrian lettering " ( ktav ashurit ), the " square-script ", by Ezra the Scribe following the Babylonian Exile.

As spoken by the Kurdish Jews, Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects are descended from Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, also known as " Assyrian lettering " ( Ktav Ashurit ), the " square-script ", by Ezra the Scribe, as could be seen from its hundreds of reflexes in Jewish Neo-Aramaic.

According to Arab legend, on the site of this pine tree, Ezra the Scribe sat and wrote the Torah for Israel.

Regular public reading of the Torah was introduced by Ezra the Scribe after the return of the Judean exiles from the Babylonian captivity ( c. 537 BCE ), as described in the Book of Nehemiah.

The introduction of public reading of the Torah by Ezra the Scribe after the return of the Judean exiles is described in Nehemiah Chapter 8.

St. Jerome suggests this may be because Ezra is seen as an intermediary between the prophets and the ' great synagogue '.

Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period — the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment — thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.

During the 1920s, her salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus, with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great writers of the time, including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, and Sherwood Anderson.

He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.

The great editions of the Hebrew Bible with rabbinical commentaries contained also commentaries of Ibn Ezra's on the following books of the Bible: Isaiah, Minor Prophets, Psalms, Job, Pentateuch, Daniel ; the commentaries on Proverbs, Ezra and Nehemiah which bear his name are really those of Moses Kimhi.

There are a great many other poems by Ibn Ezra, some of them religious ( the editor of the " Diwan " in an appended list mentions nearly 200 numbers ) and some secular-about love, friendship, wine,

Biographer Ezra Squier Tipple wrote: " If to speak with authority as the accredited messenger of God ; to have credentials which bear the seal of heaven ... if when he lifted the trumpet to his lips the Almighty blew the blast ; if to be conscious of an ever-present sense of God, God the Summoner, God the Anointing One, God the Judge, and to project it into speech which would make his hearers tremble, melt them with terror, and cause them to fall as dead men ; if to be and do all this would entitle a man to be called a great preacher, then Asbury was a great preacher.

He was also a literary critic of great importance, and was admired by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in that capacity.

The historical interval that separated these two events is treated as naturally dividing itself into three great periods ,-- those of Moses, David and Ezra.

The Babylonian Talmud is richer in traditions concerning Hillel than the Jerusalem Talmud because the Babylonians were especially careful to preserve the recollection of their great countryman, and in the Babylonian schools of the third century was proudly quoted the saying of the Judean sage Simeon ben Lakish, in which he placed the activity of Hillel on a level with that of Ezra, who also went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Rabbi ben Ezra is a poem by Robert Browning about Abraham ibn Ezra ( 1092-1167 ), one of the great poets, mathematicians and scholars of the 12th century.

A prolific letter writer, Ezra corresponded with a great many people and would write dozens of letters each week.

Stourbridge appears in two great works of poetry from the 20th century: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce and The Cantos of Ezra Pound.

Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 ( dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed ) and published with uncharacteristic and shockingly bright pink cover art, referred to by Ezra Pound as the " great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus "; and the second a year later on 15 July 1915.

Ezra consoles the woman, and tells her to, “ shake off your great sadness, and lay aside your many sorrows … the Most High may give you rest .” ( 4 Ezra 10: 24 ).

Chapters 3 – 14, or the great bulk of 2 Esdras, are a Jewish apocalypse also sometimes known as 4 Ezra, or the Jewish Apocalypse of Ezra.

Second Esdras turns around a radical spiritual conversion of Ezra in a vision, where he stops to comfort a sobbing woman who turns instantly into a great city ( 2 Esd.

6 indicates that Ezra uttered the great Tetragram in his praise of God.

In some cases Ezra, the great scribe and the leader of the Great Synagogue, is mentioned as the author, in others the entire body is so mentioned ; in all cases the body with Ezra at its head must be thought of as the real authors.

Ezra is written to fit a schematic pattern in which the God of Israel inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from the Jewish community to carry out a mission ; three successive leaders carry out three such missions, the first rebuilding the Temple, the second purifying the Jewish community, and the third sealing of the holy city itself behind a wall.

Those who argue against the historicity of Ezra argue that the presentation style of Ezra as a leader and lawgiver resembles that of Moses.

He views “ Africadian ” literature as “ literal and liberal — I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies .” Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his “ individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary ” came from the ‘ Gang of Seven ’ intellectuals, “ poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau .” Though flawed, Clarke found “ as a whole, the group ’ s blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating .”

When newly elected Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper replaced nominated CA candidate Ezra Levant in the by-election, Prentice withdrew from the race as a gesture of compromise.

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

In February 2006, Calgary Muslim leader Syed Soharwardy filed a human rights complaint against Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant.

* Ezra Taft Benson ( 1899-1994 ), American politician and religious leader

Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra ( Artaxerxes ' rescript ): King Artaxerxes is moved by God to commission Ezra " to inquire about Judah and Jerusalem with regard to the Law of your God " and to " appoint magistrates and judges to administer justice to all the people of Trans-Euphrates — all who know the laws of your God.

A list of priests and Levites who returned in the days of Cyrus ( the first returnees from Babylon ) is presented ; Nehemiah, aided by Ezra, oversees the dedication of the walls and the rebuilt city.

Ezra, a descendant of Seraiah the high priest, was living in Babylon when in the seventh year (~ 457 BCE ) of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, the king sent him to Jerusalem to teach the laws of God to any who did not know them.

Dyer Lum, Ezra & Angela Haywood represent this school of thought ; Jo Labadie, who wrote for Tucker ’ s Liberty, made himself a link between the American “ plumb-line ” anarchists, the “ philosophical ” individualists, & the syndicalist or communist branch of the movement ; his influence reached the Mackay Society through his son, Laurance.

The Jews of his day ascribed the Book of Malachi, the last book of prophecy, to Ezra but if Ezra's name was originally associated with the book, it would hardly have been dropped by the collectors of the prophetic Canon who lived only a century or two subsequent to Ezra's time.

* the son of Joab, one of the individuals who returned from the Babylonian captivity with the priestly scribe Ezra, and possibly the Levite mentioned in ( Nehemiah ) as a porter of Jerusalem's gates after the city's reconstruction under Nehemiah ( Ezra )

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" In Ezra and he is called " the son of Iddo ," who was properly his grandfather.

generation Hebronite Ya ' akov ben Shalom Ezra, who processed dairy products in the city, blended in well with its social landscape and resided there under the protection of friends.

This production was the Broadway debut of Paul Giamatti, who played Ezra Chater.

In Space Cadet, Ezra Dahlquist is one of " hose who helped create the Tradition of the Patrol ".

A few of the other artists who gathered in Montparnasse were Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Ossip Zadkine, Carmelo Gonzalez, Julio Gonzalez, Moise Kisling, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Marios Varvoglis, Marc Chagall, Nina Hamnett, Jean Rhys, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Chaim Soutine, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Amedeo Modigliani, Ford Madox Ford, Toño Salazar, Ezra Pound, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Henri Rousseau, Constantin Brâncuşi, Paul Fort, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, Federico Cantú, Angel Zarraga, Marevna, Tsuguharu Foujita, Marie Vassilieff, Léon-Paul Fargue, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, André Breton, Alfonso Reyes, Pascin, Salvador Dalí, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Emil Cioran, Reginald Gray, Joan Miró and, in his declining years, Edgar Degas.

Zerubbabel led the first group of Jews, numbering 42, 360, who returned from the Babylonian Captivity in the first year of Cyrus, King of Persia ( Ezra ).

After a relatively brief halt due to opposition from peoples who had filled the vacuum during the Jewish captivity ( Ezra 4 ), work resumed c. 521 BCE under the Persian King Darius ( Ezra 5 ) and was completed during the sixth year of his reign ( c. 518 / 517 BCE ), with the temple dedication taking place the following year.

The Pharisee (" separatist ") party emerged largely out of the group of scribes and sages who harked back to Ezra and the Great Assembly.

In Ezra Pound's Cantos, she is one of the goddess figures who comes to the poet's aid in Section: Rock-Drill ( Cantos 85 – 95 ).

As the farmer Ezra " Penny " Baxter in The Yearling his good-humored warmth and affection toward the characters playing his son and wife confounded critics who had been insisting he was a lifeless performer.

Eddy County was created by the 1885 territorial legislature from the northern half of Foster County and named for Ezra B. Eddy, a Fargo banker who had died a few weeks earlier.