Given Benjamin Kilchör’s previous thorough work on the relationships among Israel’s constitutional documents in the Pentateuch,1 he is well-qualified to assess the nature and significance of Ezekiel’s vision of reinstituted worship in the final nine chapters of the book. Having spent a good portion of my life in both Ezekiel and Deuteronomy, and having seen his convincing critique of the Wellhausenian approach to pentateuchal studies and a couple of earlier essays on Ezek 44, I had hoped he would investigate more fully the theology of Ezek 40–48 and its relationship to the hypothetical redactional reconstructions of the corpus’s origins. This volume is exactly what I wanted.
Kilchör’s strategy is clear: after reviewing the history of critical scholarship on the subject, he offers a detailed exegetical analysis of each literary segment of Ezek 40–48 that has a bearing on the status of the Levites and Zadokites in the new order...
