Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Comprehensive, but...

...Boring. As a reference, this is a great book, a thorough (and thick & heavy) survey of New Testament theology by one fo the the heavy hitters of NT scholarship. I read this book, however, as part of a graduate seminar, and found it extraordinarily boring, as, I believe, surveys of this sort are often doomed to be. If you're looking for something to read cover-to-cover, this is a tough one. The writing is lucid throughout--no problem there. There is simply too much information packed between the two covers, without an angle. It's like reading the encyclopedia.Nevertheless, if what you want is a reference, this is the book. Brown covers a very wide range of scholarship, and varying opinions in discussing the books of the NT. At the end of each chapter, he gives a long list of books for suggested reading.