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A comeback story with no glory
Ezra-Nehemiah ends not in triumph but with Nehemiah fixing new failures. There's no return to golden days, no David to save the day.
Life goes on in an 'age of prose.'
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The authors resisted mythologizing the restoration. Defeat remains present. The phrase comes from scholar Tamara Cohn Eskenazi's book on Ezra-Nehemiah, 'In an Age of Prose.'
Bible reference: Nehemiah 13
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 218–219
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