A whole theology may be deduced from the large number of Biblical names referring to acts, actions, and attributes of the deity ; thus: YHWH " gives " ( Elnathan, Jonathan ); " increases the family " ( Eliasaph ); " is gracious " ( Elhanan, Hananeel ); " has mercy " ( Jerahmeel ); " blesses " ( Barachel, Berechiah ); " loves " ( Jedidiah, Eldad ); " helps " ( Eleazar, Azareel, Azariah ); " benefits " ( Gamaliel ); " holds fast " ( Jehoahaz ); " is strong " ( Uzziel, Azaziah ); " delivers " ( Elpalet, Eliphalet ); " comforts " ( Nehemiah ); " heals " ( Rephael ); " conceals " ( Elzaphan, Zephaniah ); " establishes " ( Eliakim ); " knows " ( Eliada ); " remembers " ( Zechariah ); " sees " ( Hazael, Jahaziel ); " hears " ( Elishama ); " answers " ( Anaiah ); " speaks " ( Amariah ); " is praised " ( Jehaleel ); " is asked " ( Shealtiel ); " comes " ( Parks ); " lives " ( Jehiel ); " shoots " ( Jeremiah ); " thunders " ( Raamiah ; Nehemiah 7: 7 ); " gladdens " ( Jahdiel, Jehdeiah ); " judges " ( Elishaphat, Jehoshaphat, Shephatiah ); " is just " ( Jehozadak ); " is king " ( Elimelech, Malchiel ); " is lord " ( Bealiah ); " is great " ( Gedaliah ); " is perfect " ( Jotham ); " is high " ( Jehoram ); " is glorious " ( Jochebed ); " is incomparable " ( Michael, literally " who is like God?

Sanballat accuses Nehemiah of planning rebellion against Artaxerxes, and he is opposed even by Jewish nobles and prophets, but the wall is completed.

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.

Some years later Artaxerxes sent Nehemiah, a Jewish noble in his personal service, to Jerusalem as governor with the task of rebuilding the city walls.

The early 2nd century BCE Jewish author Ben Sira praises Nehemiah, but makes no mention of Ezra.

The careers of Ezra and Nehemiah in the 5th century BCE were thus a kind of religious colonisation in reverse, an attempt by one of the many Jewish factions in Babylon to create a self-segregated, ritually pure society inspired by the prophesies of Ezekiel and his followers.

The editors of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia implied that he prophesied after Haggai and Zechariah (;, ) and speculated that he delivered his prophecies about 420 BC, after the second return of Nehemiah from Persia ( Book of Nehemiah ), or possibly before his return, comparing with ; with ).

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.

Rabin was born in Jerusalem on 1 March 1922, British Mandate of Palestine to Nehemiah and Rosa ( née Cohen ), two immigrants of the Third Aliyah, the third wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe.

In 1917, Nehemiah went to the British Mandate of Palestine with a group of volunteers from the Jewish Legion.

** Nehemiah, prominent Jewish leader and governor of Judea ( then part of the Achaemenid empire )

Nehemiah related to him the plight of the Jewish people and that the city of Jerusalem was undefended.

The problem in Ezra and Nehemiah occurred because Jewish men married women from the various nations without their first converting to Judaism.

* Nehemiah, the Jewish cup-bearer to Artaxerxes I at Susa, is given permission by Artaxerxes to return to Jerusalem as governor of Judea, in order to rebuild parts of it ( Nehemiah 2: 5 – 8 ).

Due to doubts concerning the status of persons claiming to be Kohanim or Levi ' im arising after severe Roman / Christian persecutions and exile, the Hebrew Bible tithe of 10 % for the Levites, and " tithe of the tithe " ( Nehemiah 10: 38 ) of 10 % of 10 % ( 1 %) for the priests are dealt with in accordance with Jewish Law.

Then the heavens and the earth were “ recovered ” in 6 days beginning with “ God moved upon the face of the waters .” Similarly the Jewish temple was built by Solomon and then destroyed and subsequently “ recovered ” when the Jewish remnant returned from Babylon to Jerusalem as recorded in Ezra and Nehemiah.

Jewish leader Nehemiah ben Hushiel allied with Shahrbaraz in the battle, as part of the Jewish revolt against Heraclius, and was made governor of the city.

* 617: Jewish governor Nehemiah ben Hushiel is killed by a mob of Christian citizens, three years after he is appointed.

Descendants of Keriath-Jearim were among the Jewish exiles who returned to Judea with Zerubbabel ( see Nehemiah 7: 29 ).

22: 30 ) This curse is considered by some Jewish commentators as the reason that Zerubbabel, the rightful Solomonic king during the time of Nehemiah, was not given a kingship under the Persian empire.

His parents were prosperous Jewish merchants and keen social musicians ; his mother played piano and his father ( who was closely related to the Talmudic scholar Nehemiah Brüll ) sang baritone.

Both the Nehemiah and Ezra material are combined with numerous lists, Censuses and other material.

The canonical Book of Ezra and Book of Nehemiah are the oldest sources for the activity of Ezra, whereas many of the other books ascribed to Ezra ( First Esdras, 3-6 Ezra ) are later literary works dependent on the canonical books of Ezra and Nehemiah.

Scholars are divided on whether it is based on Ezra-Nehemiah, or reflects an earlier literary stage before the combination of Ezra and Nehemiah accounts.

There are also similarities between Ezra the priest-scribe ( but not high priest ) and Nehemiah the secular governor on the one hand and Joshua and Zerubbabel on the other hand.

Scholars are divided over the chronological sequence of the activities of Ezra and Nehemiah.

In Masoretic works these changes are ascribed to Ezra ; to Ezra and Nehemiah ; to Ezra and the Soferim ; or to Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah, Haggai, and Baruch.

The author of the Book of Nehemiah only refers to Zerubbabel in passing when the author states that: “ These are the priests and the Levites which came back with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua ” ( Neh.

4: 32 the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon = " the spring of the pomegranate " ( compare Nehemiah 11: 29 ).

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.

( In citations by chapter and verse numbers, however, the Hebrew equivalents of " Nehemiah ", " I Chronicles " and " II Chronicles " are used, as the system of chapter division was imported from Christian usage.

The earliest reported observations of pollen under a microscope are likely to have been in the 1640s by the English botanist Nehemiah Grew who described pollen, the stamen and successfully predicted that pollen was required for successful reproduction in plants.

Both Sanballat and Johanan are mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah,,.

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For instance, the books called Ezra and Nehemiah in the King James Version are called 1 and 2 Esdras in the Douay – Rheims Bible.

In this period ( in which can be included the promise made to Abraham, centuries earlier, and its recall by Nehemiah half a millennium later ), the Hittites are mentioned about a dozen times as part of an almost fixed formula that lists the " seven nations greater and mightier than Hebrews " whose lands will be eventually conquered.

Thus, all the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament are returned to their traditional Catholic order: thus the books of Tobit and Judith are placed between Nehemiah and Esther, the books of 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are placed immediately after Esther, the books of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus ( Sirach ) are placed after the Song of Songs, and the book of Baruch ( including the Letter of Jeremiah as Baruch chapter 6 ) is placed after Lamentations.

Once this task was completed Nehemiah had Ezra read the Law of Moses ( the Torah ) to the assembled Jews, and the people and priests entered into a covenant to keep the law and separate themselves from all other peoples.

5: " I made me gardens and orchards ( pardes ), and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits "; and in Nehemiah ii.

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.

Johanan bar Nappaḥa ( 199 – 279 ) has left the following important note relative to the composition and editing of the Mishnah and other halakic works: " Our Mishnah comes directly from Rabbi Meir, the Tosefta from R. Nehemiah, the Sifra from R. Judah, and the Sifre from R. Simon ; but they all took Akiva for a model in their works and followed him " ( Sanh.

From the testimony of the witness Elias ben Nehemiah, given before the board of rabbis in Safed in the case of the widow and heirs of the slain Meïr Ashkenazi, it was made evident that he was an inhabitant of Kefe ; that his parents were still living there ; that he had a brother who was a student in the yeshiva of Brest-Litovsk ; that he had brought to Gava prisoners of war from Egypt ; that he was appointed envoy of the khan of the Tatars to the king of Poland ; and that on the way from Gava to Dakhel he was slain by pirates with all the passengers on the ship.