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EZRA (from a Hebrew word meaning " help ")

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 104 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EZRA (from a Hebrew word meaning " help ") , in the Bible, the famous scribe and priest at the time of the return of the
Jews
  in the reign of the Persian king Artaxerxes I. (458 B.c.). His book and that of
Nehemiah
  form one
work
  (see EZRA AND
NEHEMIAH
 , BOOKS ox), apart from which we have little trust-worthy evidence as to his
life
 . Even in the beginning of the 2nd
century
  B.C., when Ben Sira praises notable figures of the exilic and post-exilic 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 father of the scribes and the founder of the
Great
 
Synagogue
 . According to the apocryphal fourth book of Ezra (or 2 Esdras xiv.) he restored the law which had been lost, and rewrote all the sacred records (which had been destroyed) in addition to no fewer than seventy apocryphal works. The former theory recurs elsewhere in Jewish tradition, and may be associated with the representation in Ezra-Nehemiah which connects him with the law. But the story of his many literary efforts, like the more
modern
  conjecture that he closed the
canon
  of the Old Testament, rests upon no ancient basis.
See BIBLE, sect. Old Testament (
Canon
  and Criticism) ;
JEWS
  (history, 21 seq.). The apocryphal books, called 1 and 2 Esdras (the Greek form of the name) in the
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..


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