OT Characters: Ezra & Nehemiah

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/ot42-ezra-and-nehemiahmp3/">website</a>.</p><p><strong>Hebrew words:</strong></p><p><i>‘Ezra’ </i>(Ezra) –  "help. 25x in the O.T.<br /><i>Nekhemyah </i>(Nehemiah) – “Yah[weh] comforts," 8x in the O.T.</p><p><strong>Further study:</strong></p><ul><li>Ezra & Nehemiah<ul><li>Ezra: Ezra 7-10, Nehemiah 8</li><li>Nehemiah: Nehemiah 1-13</li><li>The occasion of Nehemiah 8: was it the renewal ceremony required by Deuteronomy 31:10-13?</li><li>Nehemiah 8:3 (NAS and Hebrew, not NIV) says that Ezra read <i>from</i> the Book of the Law. The implication is that he did not read the <i>entire</i> Torah, but only <i>selections.</i></li><li>Ezra and Nehemiah seem originally to have been parts of the same book. The division into separate books appears to have taken place a century or more after Christ</li><li>Even more:<ul><li>Has the Wall of Nehemiah been discovered? Click <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/wall-of-nehemiah-discovered/">here</a>.</li><li>Click this link on the <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/q-a-0907-chronology-of-ezra/">chronology</a> of the two books.</li><li>Read <i>Hand Me Another Brick, </i>by Swindoll: click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Another-Brick-Charles-Swindoll/dp/0849937094">here</a>.</li><li>Check out Max Lucado’s <a href="http://www.thomasnelson.com/consumer/product_detail.asp?sku=0849953243">Life Lessons</a>, based on the lives of Ezra and Nehemiah.</li><li>Click <a href="http://www.ipibooks.com/Default.aspx?tabid=47&pid=1479&pg=1&cid=138" target="_blank">here</a> for my series on team leadership.</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Advanced: O.T. Apocrypha: 1-2 Esdras. These two books cover the same events and time period, but they have been put together differently. What does this suggest about how the Bible came together? about how important chronology is? about how the Word of God became inscripturated?</li><li>Most scholars believe that the author of Ezra-Nehemiah transposed a chapter from