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Ezra

Ezra (fl. fifth or fourth century BCE) is the main character of the Book of Ezra. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was an important Jewish scribe (sofer) and priest (kohen) in the early Second Temple period. In the Greek Septuagint, the name is rendered as Ésdrās (Ἔσδρας), from which the Latin name Esdras comes. "Ezra" is probably a shortened Aramaic…

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13 July (Catholic) Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (Eastern Orthodox)
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Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church

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related to Further reading · 32
Ezra → Biblical Theology Bulletin, Bossman, Bright, Bush, Charles, David Allan, Eerdmans, Eerdmans Publishing Company, Ezra's Marriage Reform, Fensham, Frederick William, Grand Rapids, Hubbard, ISBN, Israel, Israel Redefined, John, JSOT, LaSor, MI
related to The apocalyptic Ezra traditions · 26
Ezra → At, Babylonian Exile, CE, Earth, Elijah, Enoch, Esdras, Ethiopic, God, God's, Greek Apocalypse, He, Hebrew Bible, In, Jerusalem, Judeo-Aramaic, Last Judgment, Latin, Messiah, Messianic Period
related to In Islam · 23
Ezra → Al-ʻUzer, Although, Arabic, Basra, Enoch, He, His, In Islam, Iraq, Islam, Islamic, Many Islamic, Marsh Arabs, Metatron, Muslim, Professor Gordon Darnell Newby, Prophets, Qur'an, Tigris, Uzair
related to Burial place · 20
Ezra → According, Aleppo, Basra, BC, Ezra's, Ezra's Tomb, Haggai, However, If, Iraq, Jerusalem, Josephus, Malachi, One, Prophets, Several, Syria, Tadef, Tomb, Zechariah
related to In rabbinic literature · 20
Ezra → According, Amidah, Baruch, Cyrus, Great Assembly, High Priest, In Rabbinic, Israel, Jerusalem, Joshua, Jozadak, Judaism, Law, Neriah, Purim, Sanhedrin, Temple, The Great Assembly, Torah, Traditionally Judaism
related to Timeline · 20
Ezra → Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes II, BCE, Clearly, Cyrus, Darius, Ezra's, However, Jerusalem, King, Most, Nehemiah, Scholars, So, The, There, These, This, Torah, Zerubbabel
related to Historicity · 19
Ezra → Ahlstrom, Aramean, Artaxerxes, BCE Jewish, Ben Sira, Biblical World, Ezra's, Gosta, Jewish, Joshua, Judaism, Mary Joan Winn Leith, Moses, Nehemiah, The, The Oxford History, There, Those, Zerubbabel
related to Josephus · 17
Ezra → Ahasuerus, Antiquities, Artaxerxes, Artaxerxes II, Book, Contrariwise, Esdras, Esther, Ezra-Nehemiah, He, Hebrew, Jewish, Jews, Josephus, Nehemiah, The, Xerxes
related to In the Hebrew Bible · 16
Ezra → Aramaic, Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Book, Christian Bibles, First, First Esdras, Hebrew Bibles, In, Jewish, Many, Modern Hebrew Bibles, Nehemiah, Second Ezra, The, This
related to In Christian traditions · 14
Ezra → Alexandria, Book, Christian, Chronicles, Clement, Due, Early Christian, Esdras, In Christian, Jerome, Jewish, Malachi, Stromata, Where

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nehemiah jewish book esdras artaxerxes jerusalem according books torah hebrew bible also biblical one temple israel bce priest tradition ezra's

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EzraFeast13 July (Catholic) Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (Eastern Orthodox)1.00infobox
EzraHonored inCatholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church1.00infobox
Ezrais aimportant figure in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah0.90text
Ezrais aone who redacted the Torah0.90text
Ezrarelated to 1 EsdrasEsdras0.60section
Ezrarelated to 1 EsdrasBCE0.60section
Ezrarelated to 1 EsdrasGreek0.60section
Ezrarelated to 1 EsdrasNehemiah0.60section
Ezrarelated to 1 EsdrasScholars0.60section
Ezrarelated to Burial placeSeveral0.60section
Ezrarelated to Burial placeOne0.60section
Ezrarelated to Burial placeEzra's Tomb0.60section

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