Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.

Author

Nehemiah (chs. 1–7, 11–13 largely first-person memoir); Ezra-material probably compiled alongside

Date

Events 445–432 BC; final compilation late-5th century BC