Calvin Theological Journal

Arnold’s commentary of Deuteronomy 1-11 will likely become the standard treatment from a broadly evangelical perspective. We cannot help but think that the completion of his commentary on Deuteronomy with the second volume will substantiate this claim.

Galambush’s compact and concise commentary successfully offers a scholarly reading of Genesis and, thus, is worth referencing due to its insightfulness on the basis of her emphasis on the literal reading with historical implications. In particular, suggested discrepancies in the text and responses to these may provide opportunities for modern readers to read Genesis afresh. However, at the same time, most of the assumptions of the commentary may be uncomfortable for religious readers, though the author hopes that they will be persuaded by her nonreligious, scholarly, and objective interpretation. The discomfort of religious readers with the commentator’s assumptions, unfortunately, may be the very thing that compromises the commentary’s ability to achieve its stated goal, that is, to bring the reader back to the text.