in God’s purposes for the whole human race and his promises to the Davidic line. See also CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF; DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY; EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, BOOKS OF. BIBLIOGRAPHY. J. Blenkinsopp, Ezra-Nehemiah (OTL; London: SCM, 1988); T. C. Eskenazi, In an Age of Prose: A Literary Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah (SBLMS 36; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988); M. P. Graham and S. L. McKenzie, eds., The Chronicler as Author: Studies in Text and Texture (JSOTSup 263; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999);