OT Commentaries

I have K&D. It was required reading in Seminary. I use it sometimes, but I also disagree with it sometimes. K&D seem to take a naturalistic approach to most of the miracles in the OT. It seems difficult for them to acknowledge the power of God to work direct miracles of the first order. They often suggest secondary causes for such events. Now, I realize God can, and does, occasionally use secondary causes, but to try to explain every miracle via secondary causes seems to me to be almost rationalistic.

They also dismiss most apparent contradictions as copyist errors rather than looking deeper for an explanation. I think they are too quick to dismiss as copyist errors those things God has put in the OT to cause us to study harder.

 

I have not looked at Keil and Delitzsch in twenty years. I never bought it because of the expense, but used it some in the library. I had a pastor who was an Old Testament scholar and seminary professor, who promoted and recommended it highly. But, personally, I never was overly impressed with it. If I could acquire it at a "steal", I might buy it. Otherwise, no.