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 ...
Before turning to the encyclical’s use of the Bible, however, it is worth pointing out that “Magnifica Humanitas” is not a work of biblical scholarship. Like a sermon, it draws selectively from ...
In order to have a public meeting, Nehemiah must have pulled his workers off the wall. In normal circumstances this would not ...