Deliver of Esdras

The delivers of Esdras (or Ezra ) is a book of the Old Testament ).

There exist four different books bearing this name: they have different numbers but, from one confession to another, the same number indicates sometimes one sometimes the other delivers. The synoptic table presents the name given to each book in the various religions:

In the catholic gun, the books are ordered according to the order of the numbers (I, II, III, IV).

Until 1448, the books of Esdras and Néhémie were gathered in the texts massoretic; it is following the influence of the Greek Christian texts and Latin that the book of Néhémie was separated from Esdras.

Summary

Chapters 1 to 6 describe the events which occurred sixty to eighty years before the arrival of Esdras to Jerusalem: the decree of Cyrus in 537 av. J. - C. and the return of the Jews under Zorobabel. The chapters 7 to 10 show how Esdras went to Jerusalem. With his companions, he fasted and requested to obtain protection. In Jerusalem, they found many Jews who had gone previously to Jerusalem with Zorobabel and had married apart from alliance and had been thus soiled. Esdras requested for them and made them contract alliance to divorce. The remainder of the history of Esdras is in the book of Néhémie.

See too

The first Book of Esdras in the Seventy

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