The Book in the order it was written
TimelineContentsSection VII. High Hellenistic and Maccabean Period · c. 200-100 BCE

1 Esdras

9 chapters · 448 verses · 11,238 words

A Greek reworking covering material from 2 Chronicles 35 through Nehemiah 8, with a different sequence of events and one large original episode: the contest of the three bodyguards over what is strongest, won by the argument that truth is. Canonical in Orthodox Bibles; in an appendix in Catholic tradition.

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