Table of Contents:
  • Portions of First Esdras and Nehemiah in the Syro-Hexaplar version
  • The nature and origin of "First Esdras"
  • The story of the three youths
  • The apparatus for the textual criticism of Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah
  • The first chapter of Ezra in its original form and setting
  • The Aramaic portions of Ezra
  • The chronicler as editor and as independent narrator
  • The Ezra story in its original sequence
  • The exile and the restoration
  • The exile and the restoration (continued)