The social dynamics of development Book

I read this Bible Study on the Gospel of Luke as my Lenten discipline, and it turned out to be a profitable exercise. The benefit of a commentary like this is that it slows the reader down, gets them to look in depth at a particular passage of scripture, and makes points that we would otherwise miss. As a preacher, I found this commentary quite helpful, not in making major revelations about a passage possible, but in pointing out many of the nuances behind the scripture. For that alone, the commentary is worthwhile.
One negative about this book is that it is not a complete commentary on the Gospel of Luke, and skips major portions of the book. How the author decided which passages to examine and which to leave out is not apparent. Another negative is that this Interpretation book spends a great deal of time quoting from *another* Interpretation book, written by the famous preached, Fred Craddock. I kept thinking that I must have bought the wrong book, since all this author seems to do is to quote the other one!
That being said, I think that someone who is new to the study of the gospels will find this to be a good introduction to Luke, and one that is basically 100 pages long, so it is not overwhelming. More serious scholars might want to check out Danker's, "Jesus and the New Age" which is longer and more comprehensive. Still, the insights that I gained into the passages that were examined made the book well worth the effort. I would probably give it 3 1/2 stars if I could.