<P> The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BC; this sets an earliest possible date for the book . It was probably composed between 400--250 BC, with the period 350--300 BC the most likely . The latest person mentioned in Chronicles is Anani, an eighth - generation descendant of King Jehoiachin according to the Masoretic Text . Anani's birth would likely have been sometime between 425 and 400 BC . The Septuagint gives an additional five generations in the genealogy of Anani . For those scholars who side with the Septuagint's reading, Anani's likely date of birth is a century later . </P> <P> Chronicles appears to be largely the work of a single individual, with some later additions and editing . The writer was probably male, probably a Levite (temple priest), and probably from Jerusalem . He was well read, a skilled editor, and a sophisticated theologian . His intention was to use Israel's past to convey religious messages to his peers, the literary and political elite of Jerusalem in the time of the Achaemenid Empire . </P> <P> Jewish and Christian tradition identified this author as the 5th century BC figure Ezra, who gives his name to the Book of Ezra; Ezra was also believed to be the author of both Chronicles and Ezra--Nehemiah, but later critical scholarship abandoned the identification with Ezra and called the anonymous author "the Chronicler". One of the most striking, although inconclusive, features of Chronicles is that its closing sentence is repeated as the opening of Ezra--Nehemiah . The last half of the 20th century saw a radical reappraisal, and many now regard it as improbable that the author of Chronicles was also the author of the narrative portions of Ezra--Nehemiah . </P> <P> Much of the content of Chronicles is a repetition of material from other books of the Bible, from Genesis to Kings, and so the usual scholarly view is that these books, or an early version of them, provided the author with the bulk of his material . It is, however, possible that the situation was rather more complex, and that books such as Genesis and Samuel should be regarded as contemporary with Chronicles, drawing on much of the same material, rather than a source for it . There is also the question of whether the author of Chronicles used sources other than those found in the Bible: if such sources existed, it would bolster the Bible's case to be regarded as a reliable history . Despite much discussion of this issue, no agreement has been reached . </P>

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