Ezra the Man
Ezra was called a scribe, a teacher, and a what.
What is a priest?
Nehemiah did this job for the Persian king Artaxerxes.
What is a cupbearer?
The Persians conquered this dominating empire in 539 BC.
What is Babylon?
Jewish tradition holds that this person wrote Ezra-Nehemiah as well as Chronicles.
Who is Ezra?
The Law of this person is at the center of Ezra and Nehemiah's calls to Israel to return to Yahweh.
Who is Moses?
Ezra was descended from this son of Israel.
Who is Levi?
This is what the name Nehemiah means.
What is "Yahweh comforts"?
This Persian king ruled during the 2nd and 3rd waves of returning exiles.
Who is Artaxerxes I?
According to Aaron and DeRouchie, the final form of the scroll of Ezra-Nehemiah was likely completed in this year.
What is 400 BC?
What is a covenant?
Ezra was the son of this man.
Who is Seraiah?
This man was Nehemiah's father.
Who is Hacaliah?
This biblical figure was in exile under king Belshazzar when Persia conquered Babylon.
Who is Daniel?
This literary genre dominates Ezra-Nehemiah.
What is (historical) narrative, or historiography?
The restoration of this promise of the Abrahamic covenant is seen powerfully in Ezra-Nehemiah with references to the exiles returning.
What is land?
Ezra led the second wave of returning exiles to Jerusalem in this year.
What is 458 BC?
Nehemiah became the governor of what town/area/region?
What is Judah?
This Persian king was reigning when the 2nd temple was completed in 515 BC.
Who is Darius I?
The events seen in Ezra-Nehemiah span roughly this many years.
According to Aaron and DeRouchie, the author of Ezra-Nehemiah acknowledged the threat of this towards God's people and purposes.
What is opposition?
This is the Greco-Latin variation of the name Ezra.
What is Esdras?
This apocryphal book claims that Nehemiah, while governor, established a library and collected "biblical" scrolls together into a canonical collection.
What is 2 Maccabees?
Haggai and Zechariah prophesied during the reign of this Persian king.
Who is Cyrus II?
As seen from Ezra 3:64-65, rounding to the nearest 1,000, the first return of exiles was this many people.
What is 50,000? (49,697)
This feast is celebrated alongside the reading of the Law of Moses after the Jerusalem temple and city wall and gates were completed in 52 days.
What is the Feast of Booths?