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Mays (1976), pp.24–25 Still later, after Jerusalem did fall to the Babylonians, the book was revised and expanded further to reflect the circumstances of the late exilic and post-exilic community.
They characterized the faithful patience of much of the religious world as an exilic weakness, and sought redemption through human initiative and refusing to wait for whatever God had in store for the Jewish people.
As a result, many historians think that Aaronide families did not control the priesthood in pre-exilic Israel.
By stressing the central role of the Temple in pre-exilic Judah, the author also stresses the importance of the newly-rebuilt Persian-era Second Temple to his own readers.
New York: Doubleday to others which are clearly from the post-Exilic period.
The latest material comes from the post-Exilic period after the Temple was rebuilt in 515 BC, so that the early 5th century BC seems to be the period when the book was completed.