Thomas B. Dozeman is Professor of Hebrew Bible at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the co-editor of A Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Interpretation of the Pentateuch in Contemporary European Scholarship and author of God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition, along with a number of other books.

Alas, we've lost much of our earlier conviction that to be in ministry is to have one's life formed by God for the peculiar challenges of this high vocation. Tom Dozeman helped me to rediscover that conviction -- those who are called to ministry in Christ's name are also called to holiness of life. This is an encouraging, timely book.

• Chapter 1: The Introduction Chapter 2: Holiness and Ordination ; Chapter 3: The Mosaic Office as the Model for Ordination ; Chapter 4: The Ordination to the Divine Word in Deuteronomy and in the New Testament ; Chapter 5: The Ordination to Sacrament Rituals in the Priestly Literature and in the New Testament ; Chapter 6: The Offices of Ordination in the New Testament ; Chapter 7: The Mosaic Office and the Ordination to Word and Sacrament in Christian Tradition

Thomas B. Dozeman is Professor of Hebrew Bible at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He is the co-editor of A Farewell to the Yahwist?: The Interpretation of the Pentateuch in Contemporary European Scholarship and author of God at War: Power in the Exodus Tradition, along with a number of other books.

Alas, we've lost much of our earlier conviction that to be in ministry is to have one's life formed by God for the peculiar challenges of this high vocation. Tom Dozeman helped me to rediscover that conviction -- those who are called to ministry in Christ's name are also called to holiness of life. This is an encouraging, timely book.

• Chapter 1: The Introduction Chapter 2: Holiness and Ordination ; Chapter 3: The Mosaic Office as the Model for Ordination ; Chapter 4: The Ordination to the Divine Word in Deuteronomy and in the New Testament ; Chapter 5: The Ordination to Sacrament Rituals in the Priestly Literature and in the New Testament ; Chapter 6: The Offices of Ordination in the New Testament ; Chapter 7: The Mosaic Office and the Ordination to Word and Sacrament in Christian Tradition