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Ezra

In the Old Testament, a Hebrew scribe who was allowed by Artaxerxes, king of Persia (probably Artaxerxes I, 464–423 BC), to lead his people back to Jerusalem from Babylon in 458 BC.

He re-established the Mosaic law (laid down by Moses) and forbade intermarriage.
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Ezra the Scribe and Prophet Even the most conservative scholars concede that the literal surface of the scriptural Torah is such that adjunct nonscriptural traditions are required to enable actual observance.
Revelation, textual criticism, and divine writ by Halivni, David Weiss / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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