"These... introductions are, to risk an exaggeration, worth the price of the volumes in the Continental Commentary Series)."

-James Luther Mays in Interpretation

"One can have little but praise for the breadth of Westermann's scholarship, and for the thoroughness, the clarity, and the fairness with which his discussion is presented."

-John Bright in Interpretation

"Again and again Westermann opens up dimensions of meaning which are not only relevant for theology but for human existence in the modern world."

-Bernard W. Anderson in Journal of Biblical Literature

"Westermann's massive three-volume German commentary... is the most exhaustive treatment of that biblical book available today."

-J. J. M. Roberts in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin

"This commentary on Genesis (from which the introductions are derived) is surely one of the most important produced in this century."

-Michael Guinan in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly