Download or read book The First and Second Books of Esdras written by Richard J. Coggins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-06-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two books of the Apocrypha treated here have little in common apart from the attribution of their authorship to Ezra (Esdras in Greek), the 'second founder' of Judaism. The commentators resolve the confusion arising from different ways of referring to the various Ezra writings before examining each book separately.