The book of Ezra.

Counted among the writings.


Attributed author(s).
Anonymous.
Ezra.

Text(s) available.
None on site.
CCEL: Ezra (Hebrew only).
Swete LXX (Greek only).
Bible Gateway (English only).
HTML Bible: Ezra 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Hebrew and English).
HTML Bible: Ezra 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Latin Vulgate only).
Zhubert (Greek and English).
Kata Pi BHS: Ezra 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Hebrew and English).
Kata Pi LXX: 2 Esdras 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Greek and English).
Sacred Texts: Ezra 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (polyglot).

Useful links.
Ezra at the OT Gateway.
Ezra in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Ezra at Kata Pi (Oesterly and Robinson).
Ezra from the Plymouth Brethren.

The book of Ezra is counted as an historical book in our English Bibles, but in the Jewish scriptures it is among the writings.

The book was originally written in Hebrew (except Ezra l7.12-26, which is in Aramaic), but the ancient Greek translation known as the Septuagint (abbreviated LXX) is also a very important witness to the text. This book in the LXX bears the title of 2 Esdras (or Esdras B), 1 Esdras (or Esdras A) being one of the apocryphal books extant in the LXX but not in the Hebrew scriptures. Also, the books of Ezra and of Nehemiah are considered the first and second parts, respectively, of the same book both in the LXX and in the Masoretic Hebrew traditions:

Hebrew Masoretic. Greek Septuagint. Latin Vulgate. English Authorized.
Ezra Esdras B I Esdras Ezra
II Esdras Nehemiah
- Esdras A III Esdras I Esdras
- - IV Esdras II Esdras

(Also refer to my pages on Nehemiah, 1 Esdras, and 2 Esdras.)