2 Esdras (Ezra and Nehemiah)

This is not the pseudepigraphal book known as 2 Esdras. Rather, 2 Esdras consists of what are commonly known as the books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the English versions based on the Masoretic Text.

The portion attributed to Nehemiah begins in Chapter 11. We believe it is an early Hellenistic period error to date Nehemiah to a time after that of Ezra.