Ezra–Nehemiah

The fourth and greatest Achaemenid emperor (522–486 BC)

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Ezra (fl. fifth or fourth century BCE) is the main character of the Book of Ezra. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was an important Jewish scribe (sofer) and priest (kohen) in the early Second Temple period. In the Greek Septuagint, the name is rendered as ' (), from which the Latin name Esdras comes. His name is probably a shortened Aramaic translation of the Hebrew name ('), meaning "Yah helps".

Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between c. 516 BCE and 70 CE

thumb|right|Nehemiah rebuilding Jerusalem, illustration by Adolf Hult, 1919 Nehemiah (; ) is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period as the governor of Yehud Medinata, the autonomous province of Judea within the Achaemenid Empire, under Artaxerxes I (465–424 BC).

one of seven open Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls

Ezra–Nehemiah (, ) is a book in the Hebrew Bible found in the Ketuvim section, originally with the Hebrew title of Ezra (, ), called Esdras B (Ἔσδρας Βʹ) in the Septuagint. The book covers the period from the fall of Babylon in 539 BCE to the second half of the 5th century BCE, and tells of the successive missions to Jerusalem of Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, and their efforts to restore the worship of the God of Israel and to create a purified Jewish community. In this vein, Ezra-Nehemiah contains an anti-alien polemic, forbidding intermarriage between the Israelites and gentiles. It i

Samarian official (5th century BCE)

Biblical event in which Jews returned to the Land of Israel following the conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire by the Achaemenid Persian Empire

part of the biblical narrative about the return from Babylonian captivity

Tattenai (or Tatnai or Sisinnes; Tattǝnay; Tâttannu or 𒋺𒄨𒉡 Tattannu) was a biblical character named as the Persian governor of the province west of the Euphrates River during the time of Zerubbabel and the reign of Darius I.