Question: In reading the Qur'an, I noticed this passage:

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> [**Qur'an 9:30**](http://quran.com/9/30) **The Jews say, "Ezra is the son of Allah** "; and the Christians say, "The Messiah is the son of Allah ." That is their statement from their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved [before them]. May Allah destroy them; how are they deluded?
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Is there any basis for the claim? Did Jews believe Ezra to be the son of God when the Qur'an was written?

Answer: 
No more so than the belief that we are all G-d's children. Ezra is, however, compared to Moses (Sanhedrin, bottom of [21b](http://www.hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=24&daf=21b&format=pdf); See also Yad Rama ad loc Sanhedrin 36a and Gittin 59a (comparing Ezra to Moses as a national leader and the greatest Torah scholar of his generation).
It's an absurd concept that has no historical basis. Islam came along 600 years or so after the fall of the Second Temple so it isn't even like the Quran has any historical/archeological basis to that claim. It is like claiming that the rabbis distorted the words of the Torah to make Lot look like a non-righteous man (Islamic doctrine does not agree with Jewish doctrine that Lot slept with his daughters).