Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah, at least agrees with Williamson that one cannot conclude from 1 Esdras that Nehemiah 8 once followed directly after Ezra 10.68 She believes that 1 Esdras omitted the story of Nehemiah in order to structure the history of the restoration around the figures of Zerubbabel and Ezra. Williamson and Z. Talshir have disproved that the text of 1 Esdras presupposes a Chronicler’s History that still lacked the Nehemiah Memoir, and they have made it unlikely that 1 Esdras ever included
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