If the main theme of the book of Ezra is the struggle to rebuild the temple, how does this theme relate to Ezra’s other themes: the return to the land (Ezra 1–2), the renewal of sacrifice (Ezra 3), the struggle against the “peoples of the land” (Ezra 4–5), the renewal of the festival of passover (Ezra 6), the journey of Ezra the Scribe and his followers from Babylon to Jerusalem (Ezra 7–8), and the purification of the returned exiles who had mingled
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