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: 
I had never heard of this claim before. It certainly doesn't fit with everything I understand about Judaism.

The Wikipedia article on [Uzair](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzair) (Qur'anic Arabic for Ezra, apparently) contains a great deal of interesting information about this claim in the Qur'an, including why it's incompatible with actual Jewish beliefs and some suppositions about how it got into the Qur'an anyway. I think the following quotation from Exodus Rabba 29 makes the former point pretty ably:

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> 'I am the first and I am the last, and beside Me there is no God' I am the first, I have no father; I am the last, I have no brother. Beside Me there is no God; I have no son."
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The concept of anyone being the son of God is very foreign to Judaism, as well as the majority of Jews.

Also, that's not what that verse says (but interpreting the Quran is off-topic here).