Relevant Verses: Nehemiah 9

Leading question: What can we learn from a lesson entitled “Our Forgiving God,” but which includes the call to separate from foreigners?

If one attempts to reconstruct a history of the post-exilic period from the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, one would face a number of challenges, not least of which is the “feel” that the books including the following somewhat pasted together from miscellaneous fragments.

Question: If it seems clear that a particular book of the Bible is a compilation, does that diminish its value in comparison with a book that might be constructed in a more ...