does not mean that at this late date the status of Ezekiel was in serious jeopardy. From the same period as Josephus and the Jamnia debates comes an independent reference to twenty-four as the number of books of holy scripture. The Apocalypse of Ezra (otherwise called 4 Ezra and 2 Esdras)24 was written after the destruction of the temple in AD 70, but purports to record revelations made to Ezra after the destruction of Solomon’s temple centuries before. Ezra tells how, by divine illumination, he