Ezra called on the Kohanim of Djerba to return and serve G-d in Yerushalayim. They refused, because they did not believe that the building of the second Beis Hamikdash was ordained by G-d.

A Novena of Days with St. Ezra July 13 is the date set aside for St. Ezra in the current Roman Martyrology . July 13 is also the memorial for another saint from the Bible — St. Silas — in the ...

The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

So, temple work sits in between voluntary religious service and imperial obligation. For example, Ezra 6 mentions royal decrees ensuring resources for sacrifices, which shows the state's involvement ...

The game Ezra and Nehemiah chronicles the challenges that the noted priest and scribe, Ezra, and cup-bearer to king Artaxerxes of Persia, ... rebuild the walls and the temple, ...