The Levitical Authorship of Ezra-Nehemiah

The study of Ezra—Nehemiah has been revolutionized in recent years by a growing rejection of the long—established belief that it was composed as part of the Chronicler's work. That shift in scholarly paradigms has re—opened many questions of origin and purpose, and this thesis attempts to establish an answer to the most important of these: the question of authorship. Here, Kyungjin Min argues that Ezra—Nehemiah most likely originated in a Levitical group that received Persian backing during...