Interpreting Deuteronomy from a conservative perspective, Peter C. Craigie highlights the centrality of the book's theme of a covenant commitment while also taking great care to demonstrate how Deuteronomy is a book with considerable contemporary relevance. He uses resources of recent research in Old Testament studies to effectively bridge the gap of more than three thousand years that separates the modern reader from the events described in Deuteronomy, this clarifying the primary message of the text for the modern reader.