<p>The books of Ezra and Nehemiah, treated here as one larger work, continue the story of Israelβs experience begun in the biblical books of I and II Chronicles. In the wake of Persia replacing Babylon as the ruling empire in the ancient Near East, the Judahites exiled in Babylon find reason to hope
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