Ezra
Old Testament · History · 10 chapters
The exiles return from Babylon, rebuild the temple, and Ezra leads the people to rediscover the Law.
Exile & ReturnRepentanceWorship
Context
- Genre
- Memoir and history
- Authorship
- Traditionally attributed to EzraIts composition is debated.
- Setting
- Persia and Jerusalem
- Original language
- Hebrew and Aramaic
- In the original
- שׁוּבshuv — return
- Related texts
- 2 Chronicles 36 · Cyrus’s decreeNehemiah 8 · law read aloud