major role played by prophets in Chronicles and the relative absence of prophecy from Ezra-Nehemiah. But apart from the fact that the most significant event recorded in the latter, the rebuilding of the temple, was accomplished with prophetic backing (Ezra 5:1–2), the argument overlooks the fundamental change which prophecy underwent at the exile, a change of which the author was as aware as we are (cf. the substitution of “priests and Levites” at 2 Chron. 34:30 for “priests and prophets” at 2 Kings