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[[File:Ezra Reads the Law to the People.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|[[Ezra]] Reads the Law to the People by Gustave Doré, 1866]]
'''Second Chronicles''' is the 14th book of the [[Old Testament]]. Its final verses indicate that it was probably written after the release of the exiles from [[Babylon]] in 538 BC. However the absence of Hellenistic (that is devotion to the [[Greece|Greek]] language through written style) influence might suggest that Second Chronicles was written before the [[Alexander the Great|Alexandrian]] period (before 331 BC). The majority of interpreters have dated Second Chronicles during the time of [[Ezra]] and [[Nehemiah]]. Indeed, the traditional Jewish view is that [[Ezra]] wrote I and II Chronicles.
'''Second Chronicles''' is the 14th book of the [[Old Testament]]. Its final verses indicate that it was probably written after the release of the exiles from [[Babylon]] in 538 BC. However the absence of Hellenistic (that is devotion to the [[Greece|Greek]] language through written style) influence might suggest that Second Chronicles was written before the [[Alexander the Great|Alexandrian]] period (before 331 BC). The majority of interpreters have dated Second Chronicles during the time of [[Ezra]] and [[Nehemiah]]. Indeed, the traditional Jewish view is that [[Ezra]] wrote I and II Chronicles.