This thesis explores the potential for the warranted reception of Scripture. It examines the way the Book of Ezekiel prepares its own reception among latter audiences such that later readings might be judged not merely as happenstance reapplications of the text but as instances of authentic exegesis concerning what is in fact conveyed in the book. The first chapter considers the tenets and implications of modern and postmodern exegesis as they relate to this possibility. I argue that both are forms of historicism which restrict meaning, respectively, to the moment of origin and the moment of interpretation. In contrast, I note that the unified, providential view of history characteristic of premodern exegesis leaves open the possibility for warranted recepton and is, moreover, consistent with what Scripture itself wishes to make possible. In the second chapter, I turned to see how the Book of Ezekiel puts forward this understanding of history and, relatedly, certain affirmations about authorship and audience. Taken together, I aruge that the text proposes itself as a divinely authored reading of sacred history that functions to explain the present and anticipate the future, written for the whole of Israel as she awaits the vindication of God's name and so also her own restoration.In the third and final chapter, I examine the Temple Vision of Ezekiel 40-48 to see in what way, against the backdrop of what was learned concerning history, authorship, and audience, one might understand the potential for these chapters to be properly meaningful in later generations. The text, I argue, functions as a reading of the past and so, even in a situation in which the specific form of restoration which Ezekiel envisions does not come about, readerships might nevertheless see and hear a word concerning the return of God's presence in Israel. In the final pages of the chapter, I articulate some of the theological content of this prophecy. The aim is not to anticipate and privilege any one moment of reception but only to show, formally, the shape which any and all moments of warranted reception will take.