Professor Emeritus of Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of The Historical Books (Abingdon), Deuteronomy: A Commentary (Westminster John Knox), and From Eden to Babel: An Adventure in Bible Study (Chalice).
I just finished this on the plane. It is a scholarly approach to the evidences of the editing of the Deuteronomistic history. This is not a book for normal people.