- First name
- Ezra
- Last name
- Scribe, the
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Ezra the Scribe (fl.480–40 BCE) was the uncle of the first high priest Joshua and a high priest (1 Esdras). He went to Jerusalem and taught Jewish laws to the Israelites who had returned from Babylonian captivity (Ezra 7:25; Neh. 8:9 and 13). Cf. Pakkala, 2004. In the apocryphal first-century CE book 2 Esdras (14:21–2 and 14: 37–45), also called 4 Esdras, its unknown Jewish author claims that Ezra corrected and restored the whole of Holy Writ through divine inspiration after God’s law was supposedly ‘burnt’ (Malcolm, 2004a, p. 399). For the ‘Ezra’ thesis: Malcolm, 2004a; Steenbakkers, Touber and Van de Ven, 2011, p. 248.