以斯拉記的內容,同時也在旁經﹙Apocrypha﹚《以斯得拉一書》出現。參Peter R. Ackroyd, "Ezra," in Paul J. Achtemeier (ed.), Harper's Bible Dictionary (San Francisco: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1985), pp. 295-296.
三書的關係,可參S. Talmon, "Ezra and Nehemiah," Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, Supplement, edited by Keith R. Crim (Nashville: Abingdon, 1976), pp. 317-328; R. Klein, "Ezra-Nehemiah, Book of," The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 2 , edited by David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992-97), pp. 731-742; Rendtorff, The Old Testament, pp. 282-3.
有認為「米大示」﹙midrash﹚一詞,也是從以斯拉記七章10節的動詞「考究」﹙darash﹚引申出來。參Gary Porton, "Midrash," The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Volume 4 , edited by David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992-97), pp. 818-22; Rendtorff, The Old Testament, p. 282.