recognizing the two trees as representative of two human functionaries installed in civic and religious offices of leadership (presumably the offices of the Persian governor of Judah and the high priest).75 For Petersen, the vision carries several important messages, including: the Hebrew community will feature diarchic, not monarchic, rule; the leadership positions will be equal in status; and the two offices of leadership are not isolated from YHWH, constituting a divine-human symbiosis.76 In light