Fire and Mirth

This is my least favourite of the NIVAC commentaries I own + have used (have 10, used 5). With due deference to the review by John P Newman, with which I otherwise agree, I did not find the first three chapters of Genesis in Dr Walton's commentary to contain "many great insights" but rather to be "extremely uneven" "tend[ing] to discuss in detail pedantic issues of interest to him" or, worse, to give too much airtime to what appear to be quirky personal flights of interpretive fancy. In his interpretations, he also esteems uncomfortably much the ANE sources above later Biblical texts (+ God's controlling hand in the narrative sweep of Scripture and History). I find myself continually distrusting Dr. Walton's analysis, which undermines the usefulness of this work.