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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...

232b of Latin C, on 5:56–6:6 of II Esdras. There is an array of some eighteen Armenian MSS collated by Michael E. Stone;8 he gives some details of fourteen of them which date from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The Armenian version deviates rather widely from the others but, once a critical text is established, will help to determine whether it transmits another Greek tradition and how the Armenian translators operated. The Georgian version appears in two MSS, one the so-called Jerusalem
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