The Bible is arranged not in chronological order but instead by categories of writing. A book of history, Ezra is with the other books of history earlier in the Old Testament.

History books in the Writings, like Joshua, Judges and Ruth, get us across the river and into the land of promise; how God’s people can thrive and mess us and find redemption we see in Samuel ...

Bridgeman/ACI Scholars believe the Book of Esther was written perhaps as late as the second century B.C., much later than other Old Testament books.