However, a fifteenth century division definitely established “Nehemiah” as a book in its own right. If once it was part of the trilogy of Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles, then the date can be ...

(All the action of Nehemiah follows the events of Ezra: The Temple has already been ... by reading the whole Torah to the assembly. The book inspires the Israelites, who realize while they listen ...

I just blew it. The Book of Ezra Ezra is half of a twin set. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah really belong together. They recount much the same event—the repopulating of Jerusalem—from slightly ...

Jewish tradition has always regarded Ezra and Nehemiah as pivotal in the formation ... Jewish identity in the Persian Period. His current book project is on the encounter with Persian imperial ...

Jeremiah is the longest book in the entire Bible ... of Jerusalem (to which we get an account of the return in Ezra and Nehemiah at the end of the history books). The minor prophets Haggai ...

(In the companion book of Nehemiah, 13:1 cites Deuteronomy 23:3–6 and its ban on Moabites and Ammonites from the assembly of Yahweh.) Eventually Ezra orders the people, "Separate yourselves from the ...

In 1950, the vast majority of the 130,000 remaining Jews were forced to flee with the Israeli-organized “Operation Ezra and Nehemiah,” and only a few isolated elderly remained in Baghdad.

Those are the first four verses of the book of Nehemiah, found towards the end of most Hebrew Bibles, and in the religion section of your local bookstore. If it was published as an independent ...