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2 Esdras

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Noun1.2 Esdras - an Apocryphal book of angelic revelations2 Esdras - an Apocryphal book of angelic revelations
Apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status


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the Jewish communities that produced and remembered 2 Esdras and 2 Baruchwove into those apocalypses a dream/demand that messiah usher in newness, rightness, and exuberant fruitfulness into God's creation.
Most of the students understood the biblical text in the same way that their Muslim friends understood the Qur'an: the Bible was the result of a divine dictation of the inerrant word of God (see 2 Esdras [4 Ezra] 14:38-44).
 
 
 
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