In the Bible, Chronicles (1 and 2 Chronicles) does not name its author directly, so its writer is officially anonymous.

Traditional answer

Jewish and early Christian tradition usually say that Ezra the priest and scribe wrote Chronicles.

This view is based largely on the close similarity of language and style between Chronicles and the book of Ezra–Nehemiah, and the way 2 Chronicles ends with the same decree of Cyrus that begins Ezra.

Scholarly view

Most modern scholars speak more cautiously and refer to the anonymous author as “the Chronicler.”

They generally think one main writer (or school) produced Chronicles sometime in the Persian period, after the Babylonian exile, drawing on earlier biblical books like Samuel and Kings.

Bottom line:

  • The Bible does not say who wrote Chronicles.
  • Tradition: Ezra wrote it.
  • Scholarship: the anonymous “Chronicler,” probably a post‑exilic priestly scribe.

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