Now and Not Yet

For various reasons, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah have suffered comparative neglect in Old Testament scholarship. However, as Dean Ulrich demonstrates, Ezra–Nehemiah as a literary unit is part of the Christian Bible that tells God''s grand story of saving activity. It focuses not so much on how to be an effective leader but on how to be a godly participant in God''s story. God may be concerned a...