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December 15, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Deny sock

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Evert Wandelaar. Tgeorgescu (talk) 05:54, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Persian satrapies

Accurate or not Aramaic portion of the book of Ezra seems to indicate Ezra had been selected by by a Persian king to rule as a "Minister of Justice" (satrap) in the entire region of "trans- Euphrates". Obviously this did not work out. Hammondwest (talk) 04:16, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Persian satrapies

It does appear Ezra wielded tremendous secular power with all the divorces ordered in the biblical account. Hammondwest (talk) 04:41, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

chapter 7 genealogy

it's worth mentioning the genealogy of Ezra to Aaron difficult to exaggerate the importance of detailed genealogies even when critiquing them. Hammondwest (talk) 06:18, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ark of the covenant

if Ezra was reported by Artaxerxes to have the law of God "in his hands" could this have been the Ten Commandments? Clearly the Persians we're smart enough not to allow the Ark to return to Judah but they let many other temple relics return. Hammondwest (talk) 06:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline

I did some rewriting of the timeline section. There are some problems mentioned in the beginning, but it nevers becomes very clear what the problems are. Maybe somebody can explain what they are.

The chonology of Ezra/Nehemia as written seems simple enought, with Ezra coming to Jeruzalem in the 7th year and Nehemia in the 20th year Artaxerxes, with Ezra still being present and they are then shown acting together. So whatever Artaxerxes (I or II) is meant, it is clearly the same one. A much bigger problem is having neighbouring peoples sending a letter to Artaxerces in the first mission of Zerubbabel. This is clearly an anachronism. It could very well be that the building was pauzed for some decades because of a letter sent, but it should have been sent to Cyrus, of Cambyses if more time had gone by then the story suggests. So apperently when the story was written, names from the time of Nehemia were used in this part of the story. Remember that Ezra/Nehemia were certainly written at a single book, so such a thing might have easily happened. Also the menitoning of Ahasveros (probably Xerxes) in verse 4:6 and then writing to Artachsasta (Artaxerxes) in 4:7 shows more confusion on who was really participating here. All this suggest the story was only written down after several generations of retelling and well after the events had happened. Quite often it is believed to be the same author as the Book of Chronicles, as these books appear to be a direct continuation. Given the fact that the writer of Chronicles also tends to mess up simple facts, this could very well be the same person. Codiv (talk) 14:24, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]