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Two Syrian church inscriptions bearing the name, one at Ezr’a and the other at Shaka, found by Burckhardt and Porter, and discussed by J. Hogg in the Transactions of the Royal Literary Society, may with some probability be assigned to the middle of the 4th century.

The totals, as also the detailed figures, in Ezr.,

Examples of artificial arrangement appear notably in Ezr. ii.-iii.

Here the recension in 1 Esdras especially merits attention for its text, literary structure and for its variant traditions.10 Its account of a return in the time of Darius scarcely arose after Ezr. i.-iii.

To the latter context belongs the list of names which reappears in Ezr. ii.