A non-rigid airship that uses heated air instead of a light gas (such as helium) as a lifting medium is called a hot-air airship (sometimes there are battens near the bow, which assist with higher forces there from a mooring attachment or from the greater aerodynamic pressures there).
<br /><br /> With the overlapping between the actions of Ezra and Nehemiah in these books, it is possible that Ezra was a fiction.<br /> &nbsp;Jewish Traditional AnswerAccording to Jewish tradition, as specified in the Talmud Bava Batra 15a, Ezra wrote both the books of Ezra and Nehemiah.
The sole source of information about Nehemiah is the canonical book that bears his name, parts of which, at any rate, furnished Ben Sira with the matter for the short notice which he gives of Nehemiah. He was cupbearer to Artaxerxes (identified by De Saulcy with Artaxerxes II., whose reign began 404 B.C.).