Excellent devotional commentary. ( )

I cannot recommended this commentary. It has too many non-sequiturs in its arguments. For instance Wright admits that the text we have has developed over the centuries from a core that goes back to the conquest, but then argues we must read our current text in the context of the conquest, never mind that the text we have - by his own admission - is intended for a later audience.

Another example - commenting on chapter 7 he argues that 'herem' should be read as 'totally repudiate' rather than 'utterly destroy' (a somewhat contentious reading in itself) but then interprets chapter 20 without reference to this alternative reading.

Read Duane L Christensen in the WBC series - it comes from a similar moderately conservative evangelical background, but is a much more profound and carefully thought through commentary. ( )