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Hardcover Asking for Rhetoric: The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative Book

ISBN: 0391042319

ISBN13: 9780391042315

Asking for Rhetoric: The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative

(Part of the Brill's Biblical Interpretation Series Series)

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 derives from how it disposes its energies: how it invites opening, how it imposes closure" (p. 2). Carefully analyzing texts from Genesis, 1 and 2 Samuel,...

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