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Ezra |
 The Book of Ezra is a book of the Bible in the Old Testament and
Hebrew Tanakh. It is the record of events occurring at the close of the
Babylonian captivity, especially The Return to Zion. At one time, it included
the Book of Nehemiah, and the Jews regarded them as one volume. The two are
still distinguished in the Vulgate version as I and II Esdras.
The book is divided into two principal parts:
The history of the first return of exiles, in the first year of Cyrus the Great
(536 B.C.), till the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem,
in the sixth year of Darius (515 B.C.). From the close of the sixth to the
opening of the seventh chapter there is a period of about sixty years.
The history of the second return under Ezra, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes
Longimanus, and of the events that took place at Jerusalem after Ezra's arrival
there.
The book thus contains memorabilia connected with the Jews, from the decree of
Cyrus to the reformation by Ezra (456 B.C.), extending over a period of about
eighty years.
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