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(also called 4 Esdras or Latin Esdras) is the name of an
apocalyptic book in many English versions of the Bible[1] (see
"Naming conventions" below).[2][3] Its authorship is ascribed to
Ezra.[4] It is reckoned among the apocrypha by Catholics,
Protestants, and most Eastern Orthodox.[5] Although Second
Esdras was preserved in Latin as an appendix to the Vulgate and
passed down as a unified book, it is generally considered to be
a tripartite work.  Naming conventions[edit]  As with 1 Esdras,
there is some confusion about the numbering of this book. Some
early Latin manuscripts call it 3 Esdras, while Jerome and the
medieval Latin manuscripts denoted it 4 Esdras, which to this
day is the name used for it in modern critical editions,[6][7]
which are typically in Latin, the language of its most complete
exemplars.[8] Once Jerome's 1 and 2 Esd