Deuteronomy

“Just as multiple, often contradictory, voices and traditions were woven together two and a half millennia ago to create the extended sermonic text that came to be called Deuteronomy—or, in Hebrew, Devarim’ / ‘Words’—we now have an extended polyphonic act of homage, interrogation, and interpretation fit for twenty-first century readers, scholars, preachers, and religious institutions. Anyone with a curiosity about the multiple dimensions of biblical texts will relish the wealth and depth of scholarship on display: the original Hebrew text is offered in a contemporary translation and is accompanied on the page by mini-essays and excurses composed by a formidable range of modern commentators, many offering fresh insights from a feminist perspective. The footnotes that accompany the text on every page—opening up avenues for further research— come from a dazzling range of traditional and contemporary sources. This is multi-vocal biblical scholarship at its best: discursive, erudite, and seriously committed to helping the reader listen in afresh to the ‘Words’ of old.”
Howard Cooper, psychoanalyst and rabbi

“Biblical commentaries, tend to present textual perspectives that are either Christian or Jewish, based on the religious orientation of the scholar. Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos breaks this mold by offering an indispensable perspective on the book of Deuteronomy. Written by a Christian biblical scholar who engages with a variety of Jewish sources, this commentary is truly one of a kind! This commentary fills a gap that has existed for too long.”
Tamar Kamionkowski, professor of biblical studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College