27:1–34), the Graf-Wellhausenian view that this ‘code’ was probably an independent work composed about the time of Ezekiel and added to Leviticus shortly thereafter seems entirely artificial and contrived. That the kind of situation proposed by Wellhausen simply did not occur is further suggested by the contents of the ‘code’, in which there is an almost complete lack of interest in the part played by the priests during the sacrifices. This would be most unusual had the material originated in specifically