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All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, áéé W. èth Ave., Suite ã, Eugene, OR éçäàá .  \nWipf & Stock  \nAn Imprint ofWipfand Stock Publishers áéé W. èth Ave., Suite ã  \nEugene, OR éçäàá [www.wipfandstock.com](www.wipfandstock.com)[ ](www.wipfandstock.com)´¥´©¶¦¥§¯ ·¦²: éçé-è-ãèåâ-çáâã-è  \n¬¥¶¨§³º©¶ ·¦²: éçé-è-ãèåâ-çáâä-婦³³¯ ·¦²: éçé-è-ãèåâ-çáâå-â  \nº©¶· ³² ²¹±¦©¶ àé/àé/âá  \nAll English quotations from the Hebrew Bible follow the translations in Tanakh: Ze Holy Scriptures: Ze New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright © áéèå by 􀂅e Jewish Publication Society. All rights reserved. Used with permission.  \nQuotations from the Christians Scriptures are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © áéäæ, áéåâ, and áéçá the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. All English quotations from Talmud, Mikraot Gedolot, and Mishneh Torah follow my own translation of the original Hebrew and Aramaic texts.  \nTable of Contents  \nTitle Page  \nAcknowledgments  \nIntroduction  \nTORAH  \nChapter 1: Sacred History  \nChapter 2: Torah Rituals  \nChapter 3: Redaction of the Torah  \nChapter 4: Who Wrote Ezra/Nehemiah?  \nChapter 5: When Were Ezra and Nehemiah  \nWritten?  \nLANGUAGES  \nChapter 6: The Shift to Writing Hebrew in  \nAramaic Letters  \nChapter 7: Aramaic, Hebrew, and Judeo  \nAmerican  \nChapter 8: Persian Loan Words  \nChapter 9: How Do You Spell King David’s  \nName?  \nHISTORY  \nChapter 10: Our Story in the Much Larger  \nWorld  \nChapter 11: Placing Ezra and Nehemiah in Their  \nHistoric Context  \nChapter 12: National Narrative  \nChapter 13: Taking Possession of the Land  \nChapter 14: Practical Zionism: The First Aliyah  \nRETURNING HOME  \nChapter 15: Cyrus the Great  \nChapter 16: Political Zionism  \nChapter 17: Jeremiah’s Promise  \nChapter 18: Babylonian Jews  \nChapter 19: The First Jew RITUALS  \nChapter 20: Understanding the Sukkah  \nChapter 21: Religious Life During the Exile in Babylonia  \nChapter 22: Redefining Time  \nChapter 23: The Right Song JERUSALEM  \nChapter 24: Rebuilding the Altar and the Temple  \nChapter 25: One Temple or Two?  \nChapter 26: The Walls of Jerusalem  \nChapter 27: Where Is the Ark?  \nChapter 28: The Presence of God PEOPLE  \nChapter 29: Grouping the Community  \nChapter 30: Help from Others  \nChapter 31: What Were Their Names?  \nChapter 32: Ahasuerus and Ahasuerus  \nChapter 33: How Do You Say Ahasuerus in Persian?  \nChapter 34: He Was Wearing a Hat  \nChapter 35: Foreign Wives  \nChapter 36: The Davidic Line SELF-RELIANCE  \nChapter 37: The Adversaries  \nChapter 38: The Samaritans  \nChapter 39: The Letters  \nChapter 40: Defending Ourselves  \nChapter 41: Nehemiah’s Enemies  \nTHE END OF PROPHECY  \nChapter 42: Haggai and Zechariah  \nChapter 43: Already but Not Yet  \nChapter 44: A Mighty Hand, and an Outstretched Arm  \nChapter 45: Ezra and Nehemiah in Rabbinic Literature  \nChapter 46: Lidrosh For Further Reading Bibliography  \nI dedicate this book to the memory of my father-in-law, Eric Blaustein, a scholar of ancient Near East and European history and a hero of the Jewish  \npeople.  \nAcknowledgments  \nA· I »¥· ·©¥¶§¬ ²« for a topic for my last year of leading Congregation Etz Chaim’s Torah Study Group, I turned to my Talmud Study Buddies for ideas. Rabbi Michael Balinsky suggested that the students and I might enjoy exploring the book of Ezra. 􀂅at suggestion set me on the path that me led to this book.  \nI am grateful to friends and relatives who each read a portion of my manuscript ","cbCaip08TaevdpHX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip08TaevdpHX","pdf",2878854,266,"English","# Introduction\n# Torah\n## Chapter 1: Sacred History\n## Chapter 2: Torah Rituals\n## Chapter 3: Redaction of the Torah\n## Chapter 4: Who Wrote Ezra/Nehemiah?\n## Chapter 5: When Were Ezra and Nehemiah Written?\n# Languages\n## Chapter 6: The Shift to Writing Hebrew in Aramaic Letters\n## Chapter 7: Aramaic, Hebrew, and Judeo American\n## Chapter 8: Persian Loan Words\n## Chapter 9: How Do You Spell King David’s Name?\n# History\n## Chapter 10: Our Story in the Much Larger World\n## Chapter 11: Placing Ezra and Nehemiah in Their Historic Context\n## Chapter 12: National Narrative\n## Chapter 13: Taking Possession of the Land\n## Chapter 14: Practical Zionism: The First Aliyah\n# Returning Home\n## Chapter 15: Cyrus the Great\n## Chapter 16: Political Zionism","[{\"question\":\"What historical and religious themes does the book connect to Ezra and Nehemiah?\",\"answer\":\"It links sacred history, Torah tradition, exile and return, and the reconstruction efforts in Jerusalem to broader national and religious narratives. 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