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Illuminating the theological character of these prophetic books, Matthew Levering provides a detailed examination within the context of a holy land and people. Highlighting God’s covenantal gifts of purity, he discusses the leaders’ efforts to renew and reform Israel, and how these labors have become part of the church’s own story.

in the wilderness, then more closely in the temple and its sacrificial worship. The fulfillment of God’s indwelling is likewise accomplished by Jesus as the incarnate Son of God.1 Jesus could not have fulfilled this divine plan had there been no Ezra and Nehemiah, for without them—and the other central figures described in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah—there would have been no return to the land after the Babylonian exile, no rebuilding of the temple, and no restoration of the law. The time of Ezra
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