and gives each a catchy title. This commentary remains open to the question of date. Nonetheless, it acknowledges that the book’s message is especially relevant to times of political disaster. Payne examines Deuteronomy as a book of law, as a sermon, and as history. LM Ridderbos, J. Deuteronomy. BSC. Zondervan, 1984. 336 pp. Ridderbos, one of the best Dutch Old Testament scholars of the previous generation, has contributed a formidable conservative defense against critical theories of Deuteronomy.