Ezra is a short, fairly dry book about returning from exile, rebuilding a temple, and a fair amount of paperwork in between, but it’s also where you start to see the post-exile community drawing some very hard lines about who belongs and who doesn’t. We covered all 10 chapters.
You’ll also see 2 episodes marked Dig Deeper below. The show’s format is an unstudied first read, reactions and all, so those episodes are where the hosts go back into a book or chapters they already covered to chase down their own questions and pick up what they missed the first time through. They’re not listener Q&A, just the hosts grading their own homework.
12 episodes (10 read-through + 2 Dig Deeper) • Chapters 1–10 (complete) • Recorded 2023
Every Episode, In Order
- Ezra Chapter 1
- Ezra Chapter 2
- Ezra Chapter 3
- Ezra Chapter 4
- Ezra Chapter 5
- [Dig Deeper] Ezra Chapters 1–5
- Ezra Chapter 6
- Ezra Chapter 7
- Ezra Chapter 8
- Ezra Chapter 9
- Ezra Chapter 10
- [Dig Deeper] Ezra Chapters 6–10
Contradictions We Found in Ezra
Here are some of the contradictions we dug into in Ezra (out of 22 we cataloged):
- How many children did Adin have?
- How many children did Arah have?
- How many children did Azgad have?
- How many children did Bebai have?
- How many children did Bezai have?
- How many children did Lod have?
- How many children did Senaah have?
- How many children did Zattu have?
- How much gold, silver, and clothing did the people give?
- Was Zechariah Iddo's son or grandson?
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