Lost Scriptures: 1 Esdras
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
How could a “lost scripture” one day be recognized by Catholics? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli unpack 1 Esdras—its dramatic tale, canonical debates, and what it reveals about faith, history, and unity.
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| 0:00.0 | Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world is brought to you by the StarQuest Production Network |
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| 0:28.2 | You're listening to episode 364 of Jimmy Eakin's mysterious world, |
| 0:32.1 | where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. |
| 0:36.8 | In this episode, we're talking about the lost scripture of first as dress. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm Don Betanelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Eakin. Hey, Jimmy. How did it up? The book of First Estris is not in the Catholic |
| 0:46.5 | Bible, but it is recognized as canonical by many Eastern Orthodox, and someday it could possibly |
| 0:53.5 | be recognized as scripture by some Catholics. It's an interesting book, and someday it could possibly be recognized as Scripture by some Catholics. |
| 0:56.1 | It's an interesting book, and it contains a dramatic story that Jimmy remembers reading in his |
| 1:01.0 | childhood. So what is First Estrus? What is the dramatic story it contains, and how could it |
| 1:07.2 | possibly be recognized one day as scripture by some Catholics? |
| 1:15.5 | That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. |
| 1:21.4 | And Jimmy, today is another episode in our occasional series of Lost Scriptures Mysteries. |
| 1:24.1 | Let's begin by reminding people what those are. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, the term is a little imprecise, but by including something in our Lost Scripture series, we're saying that it's a work that some people, what those are? Well, the term is a little imprecise, but by including something in our lost scripture series, we're saying that it's a work that some people in the Judeo-Christian |
| 1:33.1 | tradition have considered to be scripture. So we're loosely referring to it as quote-unquote |
| 1:39.1 | scripture, even though it's not in the Catholic Bible. So we're not presuming that it's an actual scripture |
| 1:44.9 | or that it's divinely inspired. And we're included in works that have been, quote, unquote, lost in |
| 1:51.4 | that most Christians here in the West aren't familiar with them today, or at least that they |
| 1:56.1 | weren't familiar with them for a long period of time, even though scholars and historians may be |
| 2:00.3 | quite well aware of them. For previous installments in our Lost Scripture series, you might want to check out |
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