About the Book

New Page 3 From INTRODUCTION. § I. THE ORIGINAL FORM OF THE BOOKS. The books of Ezra and Nehemia were originally one, and ought really to be so combined now. The evidence of this is overwhelming. Two points suffice for a demonstration: (1) The story of Ezr. is partly in one book, Ezr. 7–10, and partly in the other, Ne. 770–812.* In 1 Esd. these two parts are united in a single book. (...

About the Author

Loring W. Batten ---

Batten, Loring Woart--Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the Old Testament, General Theological Seminary in New York and a former chairman of the Society for Biblical Scholarship (1928).

Contents

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
INTRODUCTION
§ 1. THE ORIGINAL FORM OF THE BOOKS . . . . . . . . . 1
§ 2. THE DATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
§ 3. THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOKS . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
§ 4. THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
§ 5. THE TWO EDITIONS OF EZRA–NEHEMIAH . . . . . . . . 6
§ 6. 1 ESDRAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
§ 7. THE SEMITIC TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
§ 8. THE SOURCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
§ 9. THE SAMARITAN OPPOSITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
§ 10. THE DATE OF EZRA'S MISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
§ 11. THE HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN PERIOD . . . . . . . . 30
§ 12. CHAPTER AND VERSE DIVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
§ 13. LITERATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
COMMENTARY ON
EZRA 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
EZRA 21–69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
EZRA 270–43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
424b–618 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
EZRA 619–22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
EZRA 44–6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
EZRA 47–24a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
NEHEMIAH 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
NEHEMIAH 31–32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
NEHEMIAH 333–417 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
NEHEMIAH 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
NEHEMIAH 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
NEHEMIAH 71–5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
NEHEMIAH 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
NEHEMIAH 121–26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
NEHEMIAH 1227–43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
NEHEMIAH 1244–47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
NEHEMIAH 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
EZRA 7–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
NEHEMIAH 8–10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

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