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===== Other books =====
[[File:Great Isaiah Scroll.jpg|thumb|The [[Isaiah scroll]], part of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]], contains almost the whole [[Book of Isaiah]] and dates from the second century BCE.]]
The books of [[Book of Esther|Esther]], [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]], [[Ezra–Nehemiah|Ezra-Nehemiah]]{{Efn|Originally, Ezra and Nehemiah were one book, which were divided in later traditions.}} and [[Books of Chronicles|Chronicles]] share a distinctive style that no other Hebrew literary text, biblical or extra-biblical, shares.{{sfn|Young|2013|p=23}} They were not written in the normal style of Hebrew of the post-exilic period. The authors of these books must have chosen to write in their own distinctive style for unknown reasons.{{sfn|Young|2013|p=24}}
* Their narratives all openly describe relatively late events (i.e., the Babylonian captivity and the subsequent restoration of Zion).
* The Talmudic tradition ascribes late authorship to all of them.
* Two of them (Daniel and Ezra) are the only books in the Tanakh with significant portions in [[Biblical Aramaic|Aramaic]].