The Relationship Between Ezra and Nehemiah

Steinmann: The continuation of the shared text into the narrative material that follows it could partly beexplained by positing an original text that was not merely a list of returnees, but included such a list within a larger prose chronicle. Williamson argues that the reference to the seventh month and the conclusion of the shared material fits more neatly into nehemiah's context than ezra's. Even if we do not believe that one text is simply drawn from the other, within the context of the canon, their commonalities invite us to read the episodes that follow them alongside each other.