See also:

• EZRA (from a Hebrew word meaning " help ")
• EZRA, FOURTH BOOK (or APOCALYPSE) OF
• EZRA, THIRD BOOK OF [I Esdras]

EZRA (from a See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew word meaning " help ")  , in the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, the famous See also:

• SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGENE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

scribe and See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the return of the See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews in the reign of the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king See also:

• ARTAXERXES

Artaxerxes I . (458 B.c.) . His See also:

• BOOK

book and that of See also:

• NEHEMIAH (Heb. for " Yah[weh] comforts ")

Nehemiah See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form one See also:

• WORK

work (see See also:

• EZRA (from a Hebrew word meaning " help ")
• EZRA, FOURTH BOOK (or APOCALYPSE) OF
• EZRA, THIRD BOOK OF [I Esdras]

EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, BOOKS ox), apart from which we have little See also:

• TRUST

trust-worthy See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence as to his See also:

• LIFE

life . Even in the beginning of the 2nd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C., when See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben Sira praises notable figures of the exilic and See also:

• POST

post-exilic See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age (Zerubbabel, Jeshua and Nehemiah), Ezra is passed over (Ecciesiasticus xlix . 11-13), and he is not mentioned in a still later and somewhat fanciful description of Nehemiah's work (2 1blacc. i . 18-36) . Already well known as a scribe, Ezra's labours were magnified by subsequent tradition . He was regarded as the See also:

• FATHER

father of the See also:

• SCRIBES

scribes and the founder of the See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• SYNAGOGUE (avvaywyii)
• SYNAGOGUE, UNITED

Synagogue . According to the apocryphal See also:

• FOURTH

fourth book of Ezra (or 2 Esdras xiv.) he restored the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law which had been lost, and rewrote all the sacred records (which had been destroyed) in addition to no fewer than seventy apocryphal See also:

• WORKS

works . The former theory recurs elsewhere in Jewish tradition, and may be associated with the See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation in Ezra-Nehemiah which connects him with the law . But the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of his many See also:

• LITERARY

literary efforts, like the more See also:

• MODERN

modern conjecture that he closed the See also:

• CANON

canon of the Old Testament, rests upon no See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient basis . See BIBLE, See also:

• SECT

sect .

Old Testament (Canon and See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

Criticism) ; JEWS (See also:

• HISTORY

history, § 21 seq.) . The apocryphal books, called 1 and 2 Esdras (the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek form of the name) in the See also:

• ENGLISH

English Bible, are dealt with below as EZRA, THIRD BooK OF, and EZRA, FOURTH BOOK OF, while the canonical book of Ezra is dealt with under EZRA AND NEHEMIAH ..