This order is based upon that found in the Septuagint and followed by the Vulgate, since the material is historical and the narrative flows seamlessly into the book of Ezra.

The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

( This last mission, that of Nehemiah, is not part of the Book of Ezra.

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.

Ezra is informed that some of the Jews already in Jerusalem have married non-Jewish women.

Ezra is appalled at this proof of sin, and prays to God: " O God of Israel, you are righteous!

The following table is a guide to major events in the region during the period covered by the Book of Ezra:

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.

The Nehemiah Memorial is interrupted by chapters 8-10, which concern Ezra.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

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

Nothing is known of the biography of the author of the book of Malachi although it has been suggested that he may have been Levitical ( which is curious, considering that Ezra was a priest.

Although the Ezra theory is disputed, no other authorship theories are dominant.

Two years later, Ezra Newman found the axisymmetric solution for a black hole that is both rotating and electrically charged.

One form of this widespread language is used in Daniel and Ezra, but the use of the name " Chaldee " to describe it, first introduced by Jerome, is incorrect and a misnomer.

Ezra, known as " Ezra the scribe " in Chazalic literature, is a highly respected figure in Judaism.

) The books of Zechariah and Haggai were written during the lifetime of Ezra ( see 5: 1 ), perhaps this may explain the similarities in style.

A few parts of the Book of Ezra ( 4: 8 to 6: 18 and 7: 12: 12-26 ) were written in Aramaic, and the majority in Hebrew, Ezra himself being skilled in both languages.

The apocalyptic fourth book of Ezra ( also called the second book of Esdras ) was written c. AD 100, probably in Hebrew-Aramaic.

* The traditionalist view that the epistle is written by Paul is supported by scholars that include Ezra Abbot, Asting, Gaugler, Grant, Harnack, Haupt, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Klijn, Johann David Michaelis, A. Robert, and André Feuillet, Sanders, Schille, Brooke Foss Westcott, and Theodor Zahn.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

Elah is found in the Tanakh in the books of Ezra, Daniel, and Jeremiah ( Jer 10: 11, the only verse in the entire book written in Aramaic.

The Zohar is mostly written in what has been described as an exalted, eccentric style of Aramaic, which was the day-to-day language of Israel in the Second Temple period ( 539 BCE – 70 CE ), was the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud.

The author of the Zohar drew upon the Bible commentaries written by medieval rabbis, including Rashi, Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi and even authorities as late as Nahmanides and Maimonides.

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

According to the Letter written by King Darius I recorded in the Book of Ezra:

Baruch Spinoza, basing his opinion on verses cited by Ibn Ezra in the beginning of Deuteronomy, concludes that Moses did not author the Pentateuch and that the Pentateuch was written much later.

In seven books written in Béziers in 1147 – 1148 Ibn Ezra then composed a systematic presentation of astrology, starting with an introduction and a book on general principles, and then five books on particular branches of the subject.

Jewish religious works that were written after the time of Ezra were not canonized, although many became popular among many groups of Jews.

In late July, it was revealed that Norris had written a letter in 1992 ( 29 August 1992 ) to an Israeli court asking clemency for his former partner Ezra Nawi, who had been convicted of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in 1992 but was awaiting sentencing.

Ezra Feivel Vogel ( born July 11, 1930 ) is an Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and has written on Japan, China, and Asia.

The Hebrew Bible includes small portions in Aramaic ( mostly in the books of Daniel and Ezra ), written and printed in Aramaic square-script, which was adopted as the Hebrew alphabet after the Babylonian exile.

The Tanakh was mainly written in Biblical Hebrew, with some portions ( notably in Daniel and Ezra ) in Biblical Aramaic.

While Andy Travis received his name and some personality elements from a cousin of Wilson, he was based primarily on innovative program director Mikel Herrington, who also was the inspiration for the character Jeff Dugan in the 1978 film FM, written by Ezra Sacks who had worked at KMET.

In English, poems with envoi have been written by poets as diverse as Austin Dobson, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Ezra Pound.

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.

In an article written in the National Post, Ezra Levant, the publisher of the now-defunct Western Standard accused Elmasry of hostility towards Jews.

He has also written biographies of Ezra Stiles, Roger Williams, and Benjamin Franklin.

Isaac, the son of the Abraham Ibn Ezra and the son-in-law of Judah Halevi, was one of his pupils, to whom Abu ' l-Barakāt, Jewish at the time, dictated a long philosophical commentary on Ecclesiastes, written in Arabic using Hebrew aleph bet.

According to the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah theory, it contains material set aside from the rest of the book of Ezra, which was canonized first.

It occurs in the Hebrew Bible in Ezra 4: 18 " The document which you sent us has been read in translation ( Aramaic-' mepares ') before me ".

And they read in the book, in the law of God: this indicates the text ; with an interpretation: this indicates the targum ,..." ( which shows that the targum dates back to the time of Ezra ).

The title was a misquotation of Robert Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra, the first few lines of which ( starting " Grow old along with me!

Maaseh Hoshev is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Sefer Hamispar ( The Book of Number ), which is an earlier and less sophisticated work by Rabbi Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( 1090 – 1167 ).

The author of 1 Esdras might have done so to glorify the power of Zerubbabel, the description of which is unparalleled in Ezra, Nehemiah, and Haggai, as the aforementioned books all discuss the power of Zerubbabel in accordance to the power of the high priest Joshua.

According to the Bible, when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem following a decree from Cyrus the Great ( Ezra 1: 1-4, 2 Chron 36: 22-23 ), construction started at the original site of Solomon's Temple, which had remained a devastated heap during the approximately 70 years of captivity ( Dan.

The Talmud ( Menachot 64b and 65a ) relates that his full name was " Mordechai Bilshan " ( which occurs in Ezra 2: 2 and Nehemiah 7: 7 ).

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.

Some more unorthodox interpretations of the ark narrative also surfaced: the 12th-century Jewish commentator Abraham ibn Ezra interpreted the ark as being a vessel that remained underwater for 40 days, after which it floated to the surface.

He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.

Ezra T. Clark was an early settler of Farmington who later founded the Davis County Bank and built several houses in the area, some of which are located in the Clark Lane Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Of greater original value than the grammatical works of Ibn Ezra are his commentaries on most of the books of the Bible, of which, however, the Books of Chronicles have been lost.

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.

The wandering life of an exile, such as Ibn Ezra led for nearly three decades, gave him the opportunity to carry out a mission which was to an eminent degree historical.

The complete commentary on the Pentateuch, which, as has already been mentioned, was finished by Ibn Ezra shortly before his death, was called Sefer ha-Yashar (" Book of the Straight ").

Cunard's efforts were surpassed by much larger yards by the mid 19th century, including the William Dawson Lawrence shipyard in Maitland which built the William D. Lawrence, the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada, and Ezra Churchill's in Hantsport.

In addition, Better Than Ezra announced the May 12, 2009 release date for their seventh studio album, entitled Paper Empire, which is produced by Warren Huart and singer Kevin Griffin.

It was in the years 1913 – 15 that he developed the style of geometric abstraction for which he is best known today, a style which his friend Ezra Pound dubbed " Vorticism.