Texts assigned to Ezra

book of the Hebrew Bible and one of the 12 Minor Prophets

Ezra–Nehemiah (, ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible found in the Ketuvim section, originally with the Hebrew title of Ezra (, ), called Esdras B (Ἔσδρας Βʹ) in the Septuagint. The book covers the period from the fall of Babylon in 539 BCE to the second half of the 5th century BCE, and tells of the successive missions to Jerusalem of Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, and their efforts to restore the worship of the God of Israel and to create a purified Jewish community. In this vein, Ezra-Nehemiah contains an anti-alien polemic, forbidding intermarriage between the Israelites and gentiles. It i