Recognizing that modern commentators have tended to recreate Ezekiel's text in their own image, Dr. Allen has taken a more moderate position regarding the role of Ezekiel's redactors in producing the book as it stands in our Bibles. Positing that Ezekiel himself initiated the process of literary arrangement and amplification of his writings, Dr. Allen sees the redactors not as tinkerers with the text but as disciples of the prophet who knew him intimately and empathized with his aims.