There is No Book Called Nehemiah - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

According to Chazal, Maseches Bava Basra, which enumerates the books of Nach, there is no book called Nehemiah. Just like, for example, there is no book of Shmuel Aleph or Shmuel Bet. There's only a book of Shmuel. And there's only a book of Melachim. Not Aleph and Bet. There's only a book of Divrei Hayamim. And there's no book called Ezra Nehemiah and Ezra and Nehemiah. There is only a book of Ezra, which included what later became the book of Nehemiah. Okay, so if you ask me, where do Chazal talk about the book of Nehemiah? The answer is they don't talk about the book of Nehemiah, because technically there is no book of Nehemiah. The division of Shmuel into two books, the division of Melachim into two books, the division of Divrei Hayamim into two books, and the division of Ezra and Nehemiah as two books, is not a Jewish thing at all. It comes from the conventions of non-Jewish printers, who were dividing the Bible into convenient units.