The Book of Kings is anonymous , so its author is not known for certain. Most modern scholars think it was compiled by one or more exilic editors, while Jewish tradition often attributes it to Jeremiah.

What’s known

  • The text itself does not name an author.
  • A common scholarly view is that it was assembled from multiple sources during or after the Babylonian exile.
  • The traditional Jewish attribution is Jeremiah, though this is not universally accepted today.

Simple answer

If you want the shortest possible answer: we don’t know for sure who wrote Kings.