Nehemiah
~445–430 BCE, Jerusalem under Artaxerxes I of Persia
Cupbearer to Artaxerxes I at the Persian court of Susa. When he heard Jerusalem's walls were broken down and its gates burned, he wept and prayed and fasted. He requested leave from the king and was granted it. He rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in fifty-two days against organized opposition, with workers holding tools in one hand and weapons in the other. He kept an emotionally honest first-person account of everything.
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~445 BCE. A Persian court official who is also a covenant Jew. He prays and then acts, always in that order. He is practical, organized, and privately emotional — his book reads like a personal journal of prayers and observations, often addressed directly to God.
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