At the same time, local Congregationalists, led by the theologist Ezra Stiles, were working toward a similar end.

The Book of Ezra describes how he led a group of Judean exiles living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem ( Ezra 8. 2-14 ) where he enforced observance of the Torah and cleansed the community of mixed marriages.

" These difficulties have led many scholars to assume that Ezra arrived in the seventh year of the rule of Artaxerxes II, i. e. some 50 years after Nehemiah.

A second group of 5, 000, led by Ezra and Nehemiah, returned to Judah in 456 BCE although non-Jews wrote to Cyrus to try to prevent their return.

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.

* July 28 – American Civil War – Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops led by General Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia.

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 ).

Together, these two men led the first wave of Jewish returnees from exile and began to rebuild the Temple ( Ezra ).

Northbridge claims to history include: Native American Nipmuc lands, Colonel John Spring, who led the Uxbridge militia training company in the American Revolution, Samuel Spring, Revolutionary War Chaplain, the Residence of Ezra T. Benson 1830-1832, the birthplace of President Millard Fillmore's mother, Phoebe, and home to the Whitin Machine Works from 1831 to 1964

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

Later, when greater local success led increasingly to engagements more widely in the Southeast, and with the departure of Mark Hall and Dog-Mess Jonny, the band then re-formed as a traditional touring four-piece rock band including front man Mallonee, Newton Carter, David LaBruyere, and Travis McNabb ( later of Better Than Ezra and Sugarland.

It was Zerubbabel who led the Jews out of exile in Assyria and he plays a prominent role in the Book of Ezra.

The neoplatonic approach by Ezra focuses on man as a microcosm so that God is considered self-subsistent, unitary being who preceded creation therefore ultimately led to the perfection of man ’ s creation.

Ezra ’ s brothers as well as their sons were opposed to the affair and this in turn led to problems within the family.

The operation is named after Ezra and Nehemiah, who led the Jewish people from exile in Babylonia to return to Israel in the 5th century BC, as recorded in the books of the Hebrew Bible that bear their names.

Ezra gathers a large body of returnees and much gold and silver and precious vessels for the Temple and camps by a canal outside Babylon.

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.

In 1811, Ezra Griswold built a large south-facing brick tavern on the lot north of the northeast quadrant of the public square.

The large mural in the grand foyer is entitled " Fountain of Youth " and was painted by Ezra Winter.

* The chapter called " Birth of a New School " and large sections of " Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm ," " There is Never Any End to Paris ," and " Winter in Schruns " have all been re-added.

Western targumim exist on Sifrei Emet, on the Five Megillot and on Chronicles, i. e. on all the books of Ketuvim besides Daniel and Ezra ( which contain large portions in Aramaic anyway ).

Judah must have possessed an attractive personality ; for there gathered about him as friends, even in his earliest youth, a large number of illustrious men, like Levi al-Tabban of Zaragoza, the aged poet Judah ben Abun, Judah ibn Ghayyat of Granada, Moses ibn Ezra and his brothers Judah, Joseph, and Isaac, the vizier Abu al-Hasan, Meïr ibn Kamnial, the physician and poet Solomon ben Mu ' allam of Seville, besides his schoolmates Joseph ibn Migas and Baruch Albalia.

He uses a large fork and knife as weapons that can combine with the two other generals ' weapons to form the Nexus Blade ( male voice by Ezra Weisz, female voice by Barbara Goodson ).

Renovations include a steel and wood skybridge between Morse and Ezra Stiles, as well as a large shared basement space that will house, among other elements, a gym, recording studio, art studio, and 100-seat theater, and that will swell the shared space between Ezra Stiles and Morse to from the former 11, 699.

The portrait of St Matthew is based on the same Italian model, or one extremely similar, used for the figure of Ezra that is one of the two large miniatures in the Codex Amiatinus ( before 716 ), but the style there is very different ; a far more illusionistic treatment, and an " attempt to introduce a pure Mediterranean style into Anglo-Saxon England ", which failed, as " perhaps too advanced ", leaving these images apparently as the only evidence.

* Chapter V of James J. Martin's Men Against the State contains large section called Ezra Heywood, Pamphleteer

After his death, the nickname passed to his son Ezra II who greatly expanded the firms activities, built up a fleet of large sailing vessels, and made the Weston name known across the Atlantic.

Although Ezra Weston II built many schooners for fishing and the coastal trade, the majority of his vessels were large brigs and ships which traded around the world.

From the King Caesar House, Ezra Weston II directed the affairs of his fleet and presided over a ten acre shipyard, a farm, a ropewalk, a sailcloth mill, and a large work force of sailors, carpenters and laborers.

* 459 BC: Ezra leads the second body of Jews from Babylon to Jerusalem.

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.

" Ezra Sims has already contributed an outstanding body of works, many of which have explored with singular imagination, conviction and success the beautiful but elusive world of

The combination of these two passages, which evidently have the same basis, offers another instance of the general assumption that all the members of this body were regarded as belonging to one generation, which included Ezra, while Joshua b. Levi, one of the earliest amoraim, even derived the term " Great Synagogue " from Neh.

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.

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.

According to the Book of Ezra chapter 2, Zerubbabel returned to Jerusalem in the first wave of liberated exiles under the decree of King Cyrus of Persia in 538 BCE.

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.

During the Babylonian exile, JE was unified with P and D by a different redactor ( R ), probably Ezra, with the encouragement of Cyrus the Great, who was interested in unifying the Jewish exiles by redacting the holy texts.

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.

A aggadic passage by Jose b. Ḥanina refers to the names of the returning exiles mentioned in Ezra ii.