Praying in a heritage of prayer (part two)

(Continued from yesterday)

For once I felt like a teacher when talking with Nehemiah. Or a forensic Bible student. “I realized that both you and Daniel were in positions of significant trust with foreign kings. Your book starts about 100 years after Daniel’s finishes, but we don’t know how many years passed between you. And then the appearance of Mordecai in a position of responsibility in the court of your king’s predecessor suggests that there were people a baton pass apart who served th...