Edited sentence: The main body (chapters 3-14, termed "Fourth Ezra") was originally written in Hebrew by an anonymous Jew in Israel, likely in the late 1st century CE following the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans.This was subsequently fused with two early Christian compositions, "Fifth Ezra" (chapters 1-2), originally written in Greek or Latin during either the 2nd or 3rd century CE, and "Sixth Esdras" (chapters 15-16), a 3rd century Greek text likely authored in Asia Minor