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Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther are the historical books from Israel’s postexilic period. While lacking miraculous intervention found in previous historical books, God is nevertheless active behind the scenes, working through human agency and sovereignly orchestrated “coincidences” to achieve his purposes: the restoration and protection of his people, despite opposition and outright threat.

The books of Ezra and Nehemiah are a faith-inspiring record of God fulfilling his promises to his people in the postexilic period. These texts say so much about the central theological themes in the Bible that by the time their story is finished, the reader has a better framework for appreciating the New Testament, let alone the Old. Yet that is not how these books are typically perceived. Ezra and Nehemiah do not report the kinds of miracles seen in Exodus or 2
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