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Lisbeth Fried's commentary on Nehemiah is the second instalment of her two-volume commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah. The first instalment, Ezra, was published by Sheffield Phoenix in 2015. Like her commentary on Ezra, Nehemiah too takes full advantage of recent results in archaeology and numismatics, as well as in the mechanisms of Persian and Hellenistic rule, and in the influence of the Hellenistic and Maccabean Wars on Jewish writings. Like her E...

Lisbeth Fried's commentary on Ezra is the first instalment of a projected two-volume commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah. It is the first full-length scholarly commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah to be written since 1988 and takes advantage of recent results in archaeology, of recent historical studies on the Persian Empire, and of recent studies of the influence of Hellenistic textual and legal traditions on Judean thought. It also draws extensively on the a...

The books of Ezra-Nehemiah and 1 Esdras tell the story of the Judean return from exile in Babylon, of rebuilding the temple, and of creating a new community in Zion. For scholars and students trying to understand the Second Temple period, there are no other contemporary narratives available, giving these books prime importance. In "Was 1 Esdras First?" world-renowned scholars fully discuss, without arriving at a consensus, the relationship bet...

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According to the Bible, the Persian king sent Ezra to bring the Torah, the five books of the Laws of Moses, to the Jews. Modern scholars have claimed not only that Ezra brought the Torah to Jerusalem, but that he actually wrote it. In this study Lisbeth S. Fried separates historical fact from biblical legend, presenting the historical Ezra in the context of authentic Persian administrative practices and concludes that Ezra neither wrote nor ed...

Lisbeth Fried's commentary on Ezra is the first instalment of a projectedtwo-volume commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah. It is the first fulllengthscholarly commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah to be written since1988 and takes advantage of recent results in archaeology, of recenthistorical studies on the Persian Empire, and of recent studies of theinfluence of Hellenistic textual and legal traditions on Judeanthought. It also draws extensively on the author's...