G. Geoffrey Harper is Lecturer in Old Testament at Sydney Missionary and Bible College. He has written several essays and articles on intertextuality in the Old Testament.
Kit Barker is Lecturer in Old Testament at Sydney Missionary and Bible College. He is the author of Imprecation as Divine Discourse (2016) and the author of Imprecation as Divine Discourse: Speech Act Theory, Dual Authorship and Theological Interpretation (Eisenbrauns).
As the contributors to Finding Lost Words so insightfully point
out, the Psalms offer us a robust invitation to express our honest
feelings before God. I found this volume utterly compelling and
encourage everyone to read this book and let the laments of the
Psalms teach you how to pray.
--Tremper Longman III, Westmont College This book is a work the
church needs. Lament is a missing practice in the praying life of
too many Christians in a broken world. It needs to be recovered.
After all we find it in psalm after psalm. . . . Scripture not only
gives us a language for our joys, it also gives us a language for
our confusions, disappointments, and even anger towards God. In
this work, a constellation of careful thinkers and practitioners
serve us so very well. I commend it without reservation.
--Graham A. Cole, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School There is a
level of superficiality in the spiritual experience of today's
church that needs to be challenged. . . . Finding Lost Words is an
excellent set of readable essays dealing with the theology and
practice of lament from an exegetical, historical, and pastoral
perspective. I don't want to overstate things but, if we really
hear the message of this book, it will change the way we do
church.
--Jamie A. Grant, Highland Theological College UHI Like a well-cut
diamond, this collection of essays radiates light in many
directions, helping readers to see the biblical concept of lament
from different perspectives with greater clarity. . . . This timely
volume offers a much needed rebalance to Christian theology that
often appears to have lost sight of the pain and suffering caused
by the reality of evil in our broken world.
--T. Desmond Alexander, Union Theological College, Belfast
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