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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.

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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