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I & II Esdras: Introduction, Translation and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written about 10 B.C.E., I Esdras is a history ranging from the pious reign of Josiah to the religious reforms of Ezra. For this period Josephus follows I Esdras in his Antiquities of the Jews. An apocalyptic work, written 250 years later, II Esdras seeks to offer strength, courage, and hope to those whose faith was severely shaken in the gloom and despondency that followed upon the fall of...

Despite the fact that it came considerably later than the other books of the Bible and Apocrypha bearing its name, this composition shows the tenacity of the Ezra-Esdras tradition. (For a description of the nomenclature of the Ezra materials see the Introduction to I Esdras.) There is no really reliable record of the full name of our book in its Hebrew or Greek form. The one adopted by Hilgenfeld1 is based on a reference by Clement of Alexandria to Esdras o prophētēs
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