Asking for Rhetoric: The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative
(Part of the Brill's Biblical Interpretation Series Series)
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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,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0391042319
ISBN13:9780391042315
Release Date:March 2005
Publisher:Brill
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.87 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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