Ezra - Nehemiah

The biblical books Ezra and Nehemiah are not highly regarded because of

a painful point. In both books, a call can be found to put an end to

marriages with foreign, or strange women. This commentary wants to

understand that summons in the context of the world at that time and to

show that other themes play a role in Ezra and Nehemiah. In the time

after the return from the Babylonian exile Israel had to search for a

new identity. It was found around the temple and from the Torah of Moses

which was appropriated for a new era.