What is the book of Ezra about? Who was Nehemiah in the Bible? What is the book of Esther about? After 70 years of captivity in Babylon, God's people returned home to Palestine. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah relate the struggles God's people faced as they returned and restored their homeland. The book of Esther tells of a beautiful Jewish woman who became queen of the Persian empire and then risked her life to save her people from mass genocide. Want...

Fensham's study on the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah is a contribution to The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Like its companion series on the New Testament, this commentary devotes considerable care to achieving a balance between technical information and homiletic-devotional interpretation.

This volume, like each in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is designed to serve the church through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth and demonstrate the continuing intellectual and practical viability of theological interpretation of the Bible. - Publisher. This commentary employs the template of "holy people and holy land" that Michael Dauphinais and I put forward as a way of understanding the unity withing diversity...

"A Christian commentary on the books of Ezra and Nehemiah rooted in an understanding of these biblical texts as some of the earliest Jewish literature of the Second Temple era"-- "The books of Ezra and Nehemiah represent a significant turning point in biblical history. They tell the story not only of the temple in Jerusalem being rebuilt but also of God resurrecting his people from the death of exile. Hannah Harrington thus begins her commentary...