What can we conclude, then, about the authorship of Ezra and Nehemiah? It is unlikely that either Ezra or Nehemiah wrote both of these books in their present form, though both books incorporate material from their memoirs. Furthermore, it is unproven (and perhaps impossible to prove) that the author of Chronicles is the author of Ezra and Nehemiah, though the author or authors of Ezra and Nehemiah most likely lived in the same era as the author of Chronicles and both were probably inhabitants of