Ezra
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Bible Trivia: Babylon and the Exile
Twelve questions on the empire that took Jerusalem, the deportations, and the return — including the parts where the biblical numbers disagree with each other.
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Bible Trivia: The Temple
Twelve questions on the temple: who built it, who rebuilt it, what the prophets said about it, and why the first temple has left no direct archaeological record at all.
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Bible Trivia: Archaeology and the Bible
Twelve questions on the archaeology touching the Bible: the Kurkh Monolith, the Black Obelisk, the Lachish reliefs, the Cyrus Cylinder — and what each one really establishes.
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Bible Trivia: The Return and the Rebuilding
Twelve questions on the deportation and what came after it — the Babylonian court, the Persian decrees, and the two men who rebuilt the temple and the wall.
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Ezra
The return and the rebuilding, and the long argument about the Aramaic documents embedded in chapters 4 to 6: genuine archive, reworked, or composed?
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The Exile in Order
Twenty-one readings covering the fall of Nineveh to the reading of the law in Jerusalem, arranged by when the events happened rather than by where the books are printed.
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Bible Trivia: The Exile and the Return
Twelve questions on the fall of Jerusalem, the years in Babylon and the return under Persia — the period where the biblical account and the external record overlap most.