1 Esdras

Author unknown, a Greek retelling overlapping Ezra-Nehemiah and 2 Chronicles, likely compiled in the 2nd-1st century BC though drawing on Persian-period events (6th-5th century BC). Covers the return from Babylonian exile and Ezra's reforms, with a distinctive added tale of three royal bodyguards debating the strongest thing in the world.

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