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Based on years of intensive study and research, this commentary provides competent guidance to the complexities of Ezra and Nehemiah. The author gives special attention to the perplexing problems associated with their form, structure, and literary history. Supporting the view that much of this material is from the fifth century BC, just as it claims to be, he concludes that “there is good reason...

of Judaism testifies to the abiding influence of Ezra’s work. Finally, we are bound to conclude that in his arrangement of the material, and especially in his repositioning of Neh 8, the editor showed an appreciation of where Ezra’s true importance lay. Appropriately enough, it was ultimately in this Scripture, rather than in any political institution, that Ezra’s role was preserved, and through it he continued to exercise an influence long after both he and, indeed, the Achaemenid empire itself
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