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  JewishEncyclopedia.com - NEHEMIAH:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to Nehemiah's account, it was effected with a minimum of friction, owing to his own disinterestedness in relinquishing his claim to the governor's allowances; and it took the form of a cheerful sacrifice on the part of the moneyed class.
Nehemiah's next measure would appear to have been as aristocratic in tendency as the last was democratic.
Nehemiah is identified in one haggadah with Zerubbabel, the latter name being considered an epithet of Nehemiah and as indicating that he was born at Babylon ("Zera'+ Babel"; Sanh.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Book of Nehemiah
It had long been the opinion of most historians of Israel that the Artaxerxes of Nehemiah was certainly the first of that name, and that consequently the first mission of Nehemiah fell in the year B. The Aramaic papyri of Elephantine, recently published by Sachau, put this date beyond the shadow of a doubt.
The father-in-law of Tobias' son, Mosollam, the son of Barachias, on the contrary, was a fellow worker of Nehemiah (vi, 18; iii, 4).
Nehemiah relates how, at the time of his second arrival at Jerusalem, he began by putting an end to the abuses which Tobias, the Ammonite, supported by the high priest Eliasib, was practising in the temple in the matter of the depository for the sacred offerings (xiii, 4-9).
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 Nehemiah (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nehemiah explained it all to the king, and obtained his permission to go up to Jerusalem and there to act as tirshatha, or governor of Judea.
Nehemiah was the last of the governors sent from the Persian court.
Judea after this was annexed to the satrapy of Coele-syria, and was governed by the high priest under the jurisdiction of the governor of Syria, and the internal government of the country became more and more a hierarchy.
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 Nehemiah on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEHEMIAH [Nehemiah] originally combined with Ezra to form a single book in the Hebrew canon.
Nehemiah Streets, 5, of Orlando, Florida, gets a close cut from barber Chris Hammonds, 27, while his father George, 41, watches at Fades II Froes in Eatonville, Florida.
Nehemiah Corporation of America Unveils Down Payment Assistance 'Code of Conduct' to Better Educate and Protect Consumers; Nehemiah Encourages DAP Industry and HUD to Adopt Similar Best Practices Standards.
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 Nehemiah Encyclopedia Article @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nehemiah or Nechemya (נְחֶמְיָה "Comforted of/is the LORD (YHWH)", Standard Hebrew Nəḥemya, Tiberian Hebrew Nəḥemyāh) was a person in the Bible, believed to be the primary author of the Book of Nehemiah.
He remained in Judea for thirteen years as governor, carrying out many reforms, despite the opposition that he encountered (Neh.
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