“By the way, the beer isn’t bad.”

Telltale names and positions at court.

Nehemiah son of Hachaliah.

Striking similarities.

Does Ezra’s recitation of the Law to the returned exiles offer a better understanding of religious commitment, and of the authorship of the Torah, than. . .

For two millennia, Jews have agreed on the identity of the four species of Sukkot plants; prior to  the rabbis, though, consensus is conspicuously absent.