Last I looked at Nehemiah 9, I gathered 2010s-decadal research into a summary. It turns out that Marshal Cunningham was also doing this in 2023, but competently. The consensus of the early 2020s, we both agree, is that the prayer depends upon the Torah we got, but - nonetheless - that it floated outside the canon. Until Nehemiah's editors made the call to include it.
When reading it, Cunningham noticed that it doesn't mention the exile. That may be a problem for any argument that Nehemiah composed this work; but is an equal problem for the argument that the Torah is, likewise, a post-exilic document.
Cunningham argues here for a social amnesia
. He doesn't bring up Orwell; he doesn't have to. In the Levitic mind, as opposed to the Deuteronomic, Jeremiahvic, or Ezekielian: Judah was handed over to Babylon but only the sinners were exiled thither. The people of Judah-and-Levi have inherited a land that was always theirs. Very golah might still mean scouring.
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