Jill Firth

Author - Jill Firth

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Jill Firth is Lecturer in Hebrew and Old Testament at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. Her PhD was in Old Testament and she also holds a BA, MDiv and MA. She has published various chapters and articles and has edited two books of essays, Grounded in the Body, in Time and Place, in Scripture: Papers by Australian Women Scholars in the Evangelical Tradition (2021), and a Festschrift honoring Lindsay Wilson, Honoring the Wise (2022). Jill is writing a book on the lament psalms at the end of the Psalter and a commentary for The Bible in God's World on Jeremiah.

How can Gollum, hyperlinks, and product placement help us to understand why there are lament psalms at the end of the Psalter? A popular generalization about the Psalter is that it moves in a trajectory from lament to praise, and from psalms spoken...

Author - Jill Firth

Why Are There Lament Psalms at the End of the Psalter?