Read Ezra 5.1-5. In 5.1-6.18: Overcoming opposition and rebuilding the Temple. This section of the book highlights the continued commitment of the community to rebuilding the house of God, understood as both the physical Temple and the renewed city of Jerusalem. The section is in Aramaic and, as in the earlier sections, carries that narrative forward by extensive quotation from various official documents. In 5.1: Haggai and Zechariah: The section opens at the end of the sixth century, where ch. 4 ended, with mention of two prophets who, along with Zerubbabel the governor Joshua the high priest, directed a new effort to rebuild the Temple. There are probably the prophets behind the canonical books bearing their names. In verse 3: Who gave you a decree: the officials who are inquiring about imperial permission may not be opposing the rebuilding of the Temple as much as showing concern that all is being done in accord with imperial sanction Comments or Questions..
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