Though the books of Ezra and Nehemiah have sometimes been neglected in Old Testament scholarship, this NBST volume focuses on Ezra-Nehemiah as a literary unit that tells God's grand story of saving activity, exploring Ezra-Nehemiah's interest in the redeemed community and how to be a godly participant in God's story of the redemption and restoration of his people.

Dean R. Ulrich has earned doctorates from Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and North-West University, South Africa. He has taught biblical studies at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, China Reformed Theological Seminary in Taipei, and the Dalton campus of Belhaven University. He is author of From Famine to Fullness: The Gospel According to Ruth and The Antiochene Crisis and Jubilee Theology in Daniel's Seventy Sevens.

D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.