Part of the sequence of the biblical books, comprising Ezra and Nehemiah, and 1–2 Chronicles, that surveys the history of Israel from Adam to Ezra and Nehemiah themselves. The unknown author lived probably at ca. 350–300 B.C.E. The book...

The Books of Chronicles (Hebrew Divrei Hayyamim, דברי הימים, Greek Paraleipomêna) are part of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament). In the masoretic text, it appears as the first or last book of the Ketuvim (the latter...