The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

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.

The philosopher and astronomer Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra ( c. 1140 ) established the symmetry of binomial coefficients, while a closed formula was obtained later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( better known as Gersonides ), in 1321.

There is also another work, thought to be influenced by this one, known as the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra.

During the early years of the Second Temple, the highest religious authority was a council known as the Great Assembly, led by Ezra of the Book of Ezra.

The most important writers are Yose ben Yoseh, probably in the 6th century, chiefly known for his compositions for Yom Kippur ; Eleazar Kalir, the founder of the payyetanic style, perhaps in the 7th century ; Saadia Gaon ; and the Spanish school, consisting of Joseph ibn Abitur ( died in 970 ), ibn Gabirol, Isaac Gayyath, Moses ibn Ezra, Abraham ibn Ezra and Judah ha-Levi, Moses ben Nahman ( Nahmanides ) and Isaac Luria.

Abraham ibn Ezra and Joseph Bonfils observed that phrases in those verses present information that people should only have known after the time of Moses.

* Ezra Stiles College, Morse College, and Ingalls Rink ( affectionately known as " The Whale ") at Yale University

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.

A few years after the local uprising of the native populace more commonly known as the Indian War of 1855 & 56 and the death of his brother Oliver while on a family business trip in San Francisco, Ezra became disenchanted with his claim and in 1862 moved to Puyallup.

Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( Hebrew: אברהם אבן עזרא or ראב " ע, Arabic ابن عزرا ; also known as Abenezra ) ( 1089 — 1164 ) was born at Tudela, Navarre Tudela, Navarre ( now in Spain ) in 1089, and died c. 1167, apparently in Calahorra.

Each of the books is known in two versions, so it seems that at some point Ibn Ezra also created a revised edition of the series.

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.

( born Hilda Doolittle ; September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961 ) was an American poet, novelist and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington.

Additionally, it is known as Elam in the Hebrew Bible, where they are called the offspring of Elam, eldest son of Shem ( see Elam in the Bible ; Genesis 10: 22, Ezra 4: 9 ), although in actuality the Elamites spoke a non-Semitic language isolate.

Later Jewish grammarians include David Qimhi ( known as the Radak ), Abraham ibn Ezra, and Judah ben David Hayyuj.

This renovation was said to have been designed by the first trained architect in Los Angeles, Ezra F. Kysor, designer of the extant Pico House hotel, St. Vibiana's Cathedral, and the Perry House, all in Los Angeles, though there is no known documentation of Kysor's work on the building.

* after Keri — normal emissions of semen, whether from sexual activity, or from nocturnal emission ; bathing in a mikveh due to Keri is known as tevilath Ezra (“ the immersion of Ezra ”);

He is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged.

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.

* Pakkala, Juha, " Ezra the scribe: the development of Ezra 7-10 and Nehemiah 8 " ( Walter de Gryter, 2004 )

There is also a tradition that Ezra the scribe dictated from memory not only the 24 books of the Tanakh but 60 esoteric books.

At the same time the Septuagint translates the last clause of Malachi 1: 1, " by the hand of his messenger ," and the Targum reads, " by the hand of my angel, whose name is called Ezra the scribe.

* 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 )

Artaxerxes (, ) commissioned Ezra, a Jewish priest ( kohen ) and scribe, by means of a letter of decree ( see Cyrus's edict ), to take charge of the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the Jewish nation.

# Father or ancestor of Ezra the scribe ( Book of Ezra 7: 1 ), understood by many as the same person as Seraiah ( 4 )< ref > Souvay, Charles.

Malachi, whose full name was Ezra Ha ' Sofer ( the scribe ), is acknowledged to have been the last prophet of Israel if one accepts the opinion that Nechemyah died in Babylon before 9th Tevet 3448 ( 313 BCE ).

The Jewish priestly scribe Ezra led the Jewish exiles living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem in 459 BC.

Azra / Ezra was a scribe and judge over his people, given a collection of laws and punishments from the Archangel Uriel in 2 Esdras, also mentioning he entered heaven " without tasting Death's taint ".

4 Ezra consists of seven visions of Ezra the scribe.

Esdras ( Greek ) is a Greco-Latin variation of the name of the scribe Ezra.

The books associated with the scribe Ezra are titled differently in different versions of the Bible.

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.

Some influential avant-garde figures in English-language literature have included Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, John Ashbery, Joseph McElroy, Stanley Elkin, John Barth, Robert Coover, Kathy Acker, Giannina Braschi, and Thomas Pynchon.

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.

In literature the term has become associated with the work of two modern poets, Ezra Pound and T. S.

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 .”

It was widely influential in literature, being alluded to by D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, among other works.

But, in 1949 — after objections by U. S. Congressmen over the appropriateness of a government body awarding prizes in fine arts and literature to individuals who might harbor dissident views towards the U. S. ( re: Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize ) — the Library of Congress discontinued awarding medals of any kind, including ( i ) the Bollingen Prize, the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for " eminent services to chamber music, and ( iii ) three prizes endowed by Lessing Rosenwald in connection with an annual national exhibition of prints.

In literature some of the early Modernists such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens admired his writing "; and Pater's influence can be traced in the subjective, stream-of-consciousness novels of the early 20th century.

Additional early Jewish literature that refers to a temporary messianic kingdom prior to the eternal state may be found in 4 Ezra 12: 34 ; 2 Baruch 24: 1-4 ; 30: 1-5 ; 39: 3-8 ; 40: 1-4 ; Jubilees 1: 4-29 ; 23: 14-31.

Uriel also appears in the Second Book of Esdras ( found in the Apocrypha section of many bibles, and sometimes called Esdras IV in Catholic versions, which makes up part of the apocalyptic literature of Esdras ), in which the prophet Ezra asks God a series of questions, and Uriel is sent by God to instruct him.

After his death in London in 1908, Fenollosa's unpublished notes on Chinese poetry and Japanese Noh drama were confided by his widow to noted poet Ezra Pound who, with William Butler Yeats, used them to solidify the growing interest in Far Eastern literature among modernist writers.

Subsequent literature reviews have failed to demonstrate any deaths or symptoms more dangerous than emesis from even significantly larger doses than Thomson administered in the Ezra Lovett case.

His interest focused mainly on Russian and American literature, including Aksjonov, Bunin, Cvetajeva, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Babel, and Platonov ; and Allen Ginsberg, Graham Greene, Sylvia Plath, Ferlinghetti, Ezra Pound, and Gregory Corso.

The first publication of the new press, in 1936, was " New Directions in Prose & Poetry ," an anthology of poetry and writings by authors such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings, a roster that heralded the fledgling company's future as a preeminent publisher of modernist literature.

The experience described is unique not just in 4 Ezra but in the whole Jewish apocalyptic literature.

Ezra Jack Keats ( March 11, 1916 – May 6, 1983 ) was a children's literature author and illustrator.

In traditional literature, however, a distinction was generally drawn between the institutions of Ezra and those of the men of the Great Synagogue, so that they figured separately ; but it is not surprising, after what has been said above, that in Tan., Beshallaḥ, 16, on Ex.

Among the treasures in the Firkovich collection is a manuscript of the Garden of Metaphors, an aesthetic appreciation of Biblical literature written in Judeao-Arabic by one of the greatest of the Sephardi poets, Moses ibn Ezra.

Moses Ibn Ezra ’ s philosophical contributions were considered only minor when compared to his contributions to poetry and literature.

One piece of literature that highlights Ezra ’ s philosophical viewpoints was the al-Maqāla bi al-Ḥadīqa fi Maʿnā al-Majāz wa al-Ḥaqīqa.

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) are often more important than the semantics of words. His translations include poetry, Chinese, Japanese, Greek and Hebrew texts. He translated, big names of world literature, as Goethe ( German ), Ezra Pound, James Joyce ( English ), Mayakovsky ( Russian ), Mallarmé ( French ), Dante ( Italian ) and Octavio Paz ( Spanish ).

He was professor of sacred literature at Andover Seminary in 1864 – 82, and in 1884 succeeded Ezra Abbot as Bussey professor of New Testament criticism in the Harvard Divinity School.