Set in the Persian Empire, one of the greatest kingdoms the world has ever known, the stories contained in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah provide the most comprehensive scriptural account of the restored Judean community after the Babylonian exile. The book of Esther is also set in the Persian period of Israel’s history, although the concern is for a different community.
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay’s New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
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J. G. McConville is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, England. He is the author of numerous books on the Old Testament, including Law and Theology in Deuteronomy, Judgement and Promise: An Introduction to the Book of Jeremiah, and I and II Chronicles in the Daily Study Bible series.
Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther
Author(s):J. McConville
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Set in the Persian Empire, one of the greatest kingdoms the world has ever known, the stories contained in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah provide the most comprehensive scriptural account of the restored Judean community after the Babylonian exile. The book of Esther is also set in the Persian period of Israel’s history, although the concern is for a different community.
Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay’s New Testament series, the Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, the Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
J. G. McConville is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham, England. He is the author of numerous books on the Old Testament, including Law and Theology in Deuteronomy, Judgement and Promise: An Introduction to the Book of Jeremiah, and I and II Chronicles in the Daily Study Bible series.