NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT EZRA PROTHRO

A single certain aspect of Ezra's story regarded as doubtful historically would be the account in Ezra 7 of his commission. In keeping with it, Ezra was offered really exalted status by the king: he was seemingly put in control of the complete western 50 percent of the Persian Empire, a place apparently over even the level with the satraps (regiona