The activities of the prophets of the Bablylonian period are played out against the background of and in full engagement with both Judean domestic policies and foreign affairs. Given their immersion in the public affairs of their day, what professions today might be analogous to that of the biblical prophets of the Babylonian period. Put another way, who would you identify as a prophet on the order of Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Nahum, or Habakkuk?