Faith Amid the Ruins

Heath A. Thomas (PhD, University of Gloucestershire, UK) is dean of the Herschel H. Hobbs College of Theology and Ministry and Professor of Old Testament at Oklahoma Baptist University. He also serves as the chair of the internationally known Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar. He has served churches in America and the United Kingdom and has taught in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa. He is the author or editor of a number of books on the biblical book of Lamentations and the Minor Prophets, and most recently he co-edited A Manifesto for Theological Interpretation (Baker Academic) with Craig G. Bartholomew. Craig G. Bartholomew (PhD, Bristol University) is H. Evan Runner Chair of Philosophy and professor of philosophy and religion & theology, Redeemer University College. He is author of Ecclesiastes (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms), Where Mortals Dwell, and coauthor of The Drama of Scripture.