1
In 'The Preserved Genealogical Tables', the work turns from exile toward restoration and genealogy.
2
Cyrus permits return, and Ezra is associated with the restoration of writings lost in the destruction.
3
Genealogical tables are preserved so that the line of Yehudah and Daviyd can be carried through the post-exilic generations.
4
The received text contains difficult and sometimes distorted names; HaSefarim preserves the sequence without inventing a cleaner ancient register where the witness is uncertain.
5
The chronology now approaches the book's explicitly Christian final layer.