At first I was excited about the possibilities of the book. At the end, I couldn't even make myself finish the book and I felt like returning the book (I didn't because I like to highlight as I read along and interact writing notes on the pages). I stoped reading with that very bad taste in my mouth and the realization that I had just wasted some good money on a book. This is the only time this has happened to me with a book, and I decide to write my first and only review at this time on Amazon.The best part of this book is the synopsis, and if the author had spent the majority of his time developing the synopsis, I believe I would have enjoyed the book and maybe even written a good review. But I am sad to tell you that it didn't happen. This book is a very technical book, and there is nothing wrong with technical books; but in this case, the author spent most of the book evaluating scholarly approaches. My dissatisfaction here is that the author only examined a very limited spectrum of the gamut of Deuteronomic Theology. He also manages to do this without contributing anything significant to the theology of Deuteronomy or the discussion of it.The writing style was also very obfuscated and hard to follow. Since this is a very bad technical book and it offers no significant pastoral perspective; I feel like this should serve as warning to anybody wanting to add this book to his/her personal/church library.