Sixth Ezra: The Text and Origin

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THEODORE A. BERGREN, Sixth Ezra: The Text and Origin (New York/ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Pp. xiv -+ 282. $49.95.

Sixth Ezra is a part of the 2 Esdras Corpus (4, 5, 6 Ezra) that has not attracted much attention from scholars in the last one hundred years. Perhaps Bergren's study on the text and other introductory matters relating to 6 Ezra will change that. This study is a logical development of B.'s earlier work on 5 Ezra: Fifth Ezra: The Text Origin and Early History (SBLSCS 25; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990) and, no doubt, will be equally well appreciated by students of ...

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