In general, it may be said that while any date from about 515–250 B.C. is possible, the separation of Chronicles from Ezra-Nehemiah at a minimum permits an earlier dating for Chronicles than would otherwise be the case. While certainty is impossible, it is at least interesting to consider a date nearer the rebuilding of the temple as the occasion for the initial stratum of Chronicles, i.e., about 515 B.C. This initial edition would then have been expanded and updated somewhat in the manner proposed