Old Testament · Historical Books
Nehemiah
Nehemiah leaves a royal post to rebuild Jerusalem's broken walls, and the book keeps prayer and practical work in the same hand. Renewal of the covenant follows the rebuilding.
- Authorship
- Largely presented as Nehemiah's own memoir.
- Historical setting
- Jerusalem under Persian rule, roughly a generation after Ezra's return.
- Key themes
- Prayer and planning · Opposition · Community renewal · Guarding what was rebuilt
- Where it sits in the story
- The last stretch of Old Testament history before four centuries of quiet.
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