The encyclical presents Babel and Nehemiah as moral opposites, but the biblical traditions themselves resist such neat ...
In order to have a public meeting, Nehemiah must have pulled his workers off the wall. In normal circumstances this would not ...
Nehemiah was the “cupbearer” (Nehemiah 1:1, 11) to the Persian king Artaxerxes I (r. 465-425 B.C.) Nehemiah 2:1 (RSV) In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was ...