Tag: Ezra 1:1-8
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Reflecting on Ezra 1 1-8, 11, 2 64-70
What does this text we are studying for Sunday, March 6 – Ezra 1:1-8, 11, and Ezra 2:64-70 – tell us about “redemption”? This seems to me an enormous, multi-faceted question that arises from this text. Our published curriculum [the Present Word], and presumably the Uniform Series guide on which it’s based, has cast this…
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Studying Ezra 1 1-8, 11, 2 64-70
We are studying portions of Ezra 1 and 2 (1:1-8, 11; 2:64-70) for Sunday, March 6. This is the beginning of the story of “the return.” The return, that is, of the exiled Israelites, from Babylonia to Jerusalem. It includes the initial edict of King Cyrus that announced the possibility of a return, and that…
Matters of Interpretation 