Editing 1 Esdras (section)

==Use in the Christian canon==
The book was widely quoted by early Christian authors and it found a place in [[Origen]]'s ''[[Hexapla]]''.

In early Latin traditions, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 Esdras and 2 Esdras were known, respectively, as 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, 3 Esdras (‘the Greek Esdras’) and 4 Esdras.<ref name="Cambridge">{{Citation |last=Bogaert|first=Pierre-Maurice |editor1-last=Paget |editor1-first=James Carleton |editor2-last=Schaper |editor2-first=Joachim |title=The New Cambridge History of the Bible; Volume 1; from the Beginnings to 600 |pages=xxvi |publisher=CUP|year=2013}}</ref> 

In the Vulgate, I Esdras is considered to be Ezra, II Esdras to be Nehemiah, III Esdras to be 1 Esdras, and IV Esdras to be 2 Esdras. For [[Jerome]], III Esdras and IV Esdras were apocryphal.<ref name="tertullian.org"/><ref>{{Citation|last1=Gallagher |first1=Edmon L.|author-link=Edmon L. Gallagher|last2=Meade|first2=John D. |title=The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity |pages=201 |publisher=OUP|year=2017}}</ref> As Jerome's [[Vulgate]] version of the Bible gradually achieved dominance in Western Christianity, III Esdras no longer circulated. From the 13th century onwards, Vulgate Bibles produced in Paris reintroduced a Latin text of 1 Esdras, in response to commercial demand. However, the use of the book continued in the Eastern Church, and it remains a part of the Eastern Orthodox canon.

In the Roman rite liturgy, 1 Esdras is cited once in the Extraordinary Missal of 1962 in the Offertory of the votive Mass for the election of a Pope.{{efn|This missal referred to 1 Esdras as 3 Esdras, based on the Vulgate numbering}} {{lang|la|Non participentur sancta, donec exsurgat póntifex in ostensiónem et veritátem}} ("Let them not take part in the holy things, until there arise a priest unto showing and truth.") (3 Esdras 5, 40).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://catholicnewslive.com/story/610621|title=Actual Apocrypha in the Liturgy &#124; Catholic News Live}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=April 2024}}

At the [[Council of Trent]], only 3 bishops voted for an explicit rejection of the books of Esdras; the overwhelming majority "withheld any explicit decision on these books". "The question of Esdras' canonical status was left theoretically open."<ref>Gary Michuta, Why Catholic Bibles are Bigger (Michigan: Grotto Press, 2007), pp. 240-241</ref> Catholic theologians and apologists disagree, but some argue that these books could theoretically be added as "tritiocanonical" books by the Roman Catholic Magisterium (or pope) at a later time, most likely related to union with one or more of the churches who already hold these books to be canonical.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://jimmyakin.com/2006/08/tritiocanonical.html | title=Tritiocanonicals? – Jimmy Akin | date=8 August 2006 }}</ref>