Ezra

Ezra (flourished 5th–4th century bce, Babylon and Jerusalem) was a religious leader of the Jews who returned from exile in Babylon, a reformer who reconstituted the Jewish community on the basis of the Torah Law (the regulations outlined in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible). His work helped make Judaism a religion in which law was central, enabling the Jews to survive as a community when they were dispersed all over the world...