Asking for Rhetoric : : The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative / / Kenneth Craig.
What is a question? Kenneth Craig poses this query in the introductory chapter of his innovative study on the function of interrogatives in the Hebrew Bible. He describes a question as "a special literary phenomenon. A question is an opening that seeks to be closed, and its rhetorical play deri...
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| Superior document: | Biblical Interpretation Series ; Volume 73 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Brill Academic Publishers,, [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biblical interpretation series ;
Volume 73. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- What is a question?
- Fielding questions in Eden (Genesis 2:16-3:13)
- Fielding questions outside Eden (Genesis 4:1-16)
- Questions answered with silence and literary frames (1 Samuel 14:37 and 28:6)
- The triumph of irony by means of a thread-and-frame (1 Samuel 18:7, 21:12, and 29:5 )
- Sequential questions I (1 Samuel 26:6-25)
- Sequential questions II (2 Samuel 19:32-44)
- Sequential questions III (1 Samuel 20)
- Questions and the characterization of God (2 Samuel 7:1-17)
- The duplicitous question (1 Kings 1:11-31)
- Questions as literary threads (Haggai-Zechariah 1-8).