personalities, their remedies or their visions of the future. It is too easy to gain a cursory acquaintance with the prophetic books of the Old Testament and assume a continuity that is not really there. Although the prophets as a whole share much, each prophet makes a distinctive contribution. In many ways, Rabba’s observation and attempt to explain the contrast between Isaiah and Ezekiel is the starting point for the chapters that follow. The pages below are an attempt to explore further why some