Scholars have also found many similarities between Chronicles and Ezra‐Nehemiah and have posited that these works belong to a single large history that parallels the Deuteronomistic History. The author of these books is often called “the Chronicler.” A closer look at Chronicles and Ezra‐Nehemiah, however, shows that they differ from each other in outlook and vocabulary, and that the general similarities between them are best attributed not to common authorship but to the shared era in which they were written, most likely the fourth century bce.
