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Back to EpisodesLeaving Babylon IV: Nehemiah and Ezra Stand Against Ruth
Season 2
Episode 6
Published 8 years, 10 months ago
Description
Governor Nehemiah and priest-scribe Ezra finally bring the Jews back home from Babylon. Modern scholars reverse the Biblical order of the two, and so do I. The two institute a tax-payer-funded theocracy. Ezra rejects the old Hebrew religion and founds modern Judaism. Intermarriage is forbidden. Against that stance is the Book of Ruth.