Ezra (; , ; fl. 480–440 BC), also called
Ezra the Scribe (, ) and
Ezra the Priest in the
Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe and a priest. According to the
Hebrew Bible he returned from the
Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem (Ezra 7–10 and Neh 8). According to
1 Esdras, a Greek translation of the Book of Ezra still in use in
Eastern Orthodoxy, he was also a high priest.