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By Vexen Crabtree 2012
Included as holy:
Eastern Orthodox Bibles
Title: 1 Esdras
Section: 'History' Books
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Rejected by:
Jewish Tanakh
Protestant Bibles
Catholic Bible
Ezra:
1 Esdras is called apocryphal because it is included in the Catholic Old Testament (although not in all versions) but not in the Protestant Old Testament.
1 Esdras also describes the events found in 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah but with variant texts. In this version exists the "Debate of the Three Youths", a Persian story featuring Zerubbabel, a governer under Darius. "He takes part in a debate about the nature of power and uses it to remind Darius of his obligation to allow the rebuilding of the temple."1