Introduction 1.0. Section 1: Text and Transmission 1.1. Hebrew and Greek As will be demonstrated in section 2.3 below, it is most reasonable to assume that 4 Ezra was originally composed in Hebrew. No fragments of the Hebrew text of 4 Ezra have survived, however, and there is no evidence of its use in ancient Jewish literature. The Hebrew text was translated into Greek in antiquity, but the Greek text in its entirety has not survived. There are, however, some quotations from the book in Greek writers