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God in the Dock: Dialogic Tension in the Psalms of Lament is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book examines the dialogic structure of biblical Psalms of lament. Observations about voicing are developed out of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, and are utilized to reevaluate the theological expression of lament psalms as well as components of Israel's rhetorical relationship with its deity. What emerges is a theology that gives voice to the tension that existed between faith in a god who...

was dispensed from the outset. In other words, from the beginning, psalms were not only words of ‘faithful persons to God’,13 but also contained words of persons directed to persons. And because these speakers uttered what might be considered God’s words in some sense, these psalms had revelatory or didactic characteristics at their inception, not just late in their transmission history, when editorial activity rendered them ‘scriptural’. A dialogic reading allows us to see more clearly the integral
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