It is difficult to date Chronicles precisely, beyond noting that it must be postexilic, since it ends with Cyrus’s decree. A range of over three hundred and fifty years, from the late sixth to the mid‐second century bce, has been suggested for its initial composition. A date in the late fourth century seems most plausible, because that would account for the author’s references to other biblical writings, the mention of people who likely lived in the fourth century (1 Chr 3.22–24), and the literary features within the work that anticipate similar features in Jewish Hellenistic writings. Yet,
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