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Priests answered Nehemiah
Nehemiah barely mentions the temple. Offended priests wrote the larger narrative of Ezra-Nehemiah to stress that devotion to the temple, not the wall, unified Judah.
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1 Esdras went further and erased him entirely. Ezra-Nehemiah kept his account, but not as the final word.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 193
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