“Ezra the Scribe” (Ezra haSofer) returns from Babylon to Jerusalem, having been commissioned by Artaxerxes I (son of Xerxes I) to take charge of the ecclesiastical and civil affairs of the Jews.
In the seventh year of Artaxerxes’ reign, Ezra is believed to have led about 4,500 additional Jewish exiles living in Babylon back to their home city of Jerusalem. Ezra is credited by many scholars as the author of the Book of Ezra and the Book of Chronicles I (Sefer Divrei ha–Yamim I).