Cambridge Bible Commentaries: Old Testament 32 Volume Set: CBC: Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the Old Testament)
Cambridge University Press, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521097598, ISBN10: 0521097592
Paperback, 164 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
Language: English
Unlike the First and Second Books of the Chronicles, the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah have received considerable attention; partly because their presentation is more attractive, but more importantly because they illuminate a period of history about which very little is known: Jerusalem in the context of the Persian domination of South-West Asia from 539 to 336 B.C. In other respects, however, there are striking similarities between these books, textually, linguistically and theologically: the opening of Ezra repeats the end of 2 Chronicles, suggesting that the works were originally continuous and possibly by the same hand or hands; and there is constantly a theological motivation in the recording of 'historical' events.
1. The book of Ezra
2. The book of Nehemiah.