Excerpt from The Book of Ezra: With Notes
The title of this Book is the name of its author, Ezra, (an epitome of whose life will be found at the end of these "Notes").
The date of the composition of the work cannot be exactly assigned, but is generally allowed to have been posterior to the retirement of Ezra from public duty, in 445.
The period comprised within Ezra extends from 536 to 456, about So years.
The Book may be divided into two parts:
1. Chaps, i.-vi., inclusive, - narrating the return, in consequence of an edict of Cyrus, of the First Caravan of Jews; and the rebuilding of the Temple. This portion of the work relates to events which occurred previously to Ezra's going up to Jerusalem, and is supposed to have been derived from authentic annals which he found there on his arrival.
It has been supposed by many that these first six chapters were not written by Ezra, because the employment of the 1st. person plural, "we," inc. v. 4, implies that the narrator was present at the incident there recorded. But the word relates to Tatnai and his companions, not to the Jews! The occurrence of "we" in this instance and others in cs. i.-vi. is owing to Ezra's having in these cases copied verbatim from the documents which he employed in his compilation.
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