Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Disappointing

It begins well, with the promise of moving through time in an analysis of how the various peoples of the Book reshaped the book (and their thinking). But it majorly peters out, and I think it reflects a basically lazy attitude on the part of the author. While there is a nod and a wink toward Rashi and Maimonides and a little later Gershon Scholem, Jewish attitudes and thinking are frozen around the second century. No attempt is made to sort out the various Hasidic and other Jewish approaches to the original texts as they occurred over time, or to explore how Talmudic scholarship grew and changed in The Pale. Quakers and millenarians are absent from the Reformation, as are Unitarians later. The book has no index, and the argument, after the first couple of chapters is relatively difficult to follow.It's a great subject, but awaits a better treatment.