Ezra the Scribe Priest - Quick Facts

In Persia, 100 years after the Return, Ezra wrote, edited and issued the first biblical canon, focusing on the covenant with God

His stories are about a unified Hebrew theology

Written: around 470 BCE,

Where: in Persia and Judea

Greatest Works: editing of the Pentateuch, the Creation Story, Genesis doublet stories, biblical lineages

Traits: meticulous, obsessive, ideologue

Scholarly Name: parts of the "P source" of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers