Asking for rhetoric
Subtitle: the Hebrew Bible's protean interrogative
By: by Kenneth M. Craig, Jr.
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- v. 73
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Rhetoric in the Bible.; Questioning in the Bible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: What is a question?; value: Fielding questions in Eden (Genesis 2:16-3:13); value: Fielding questions outside Eden (Genesis 4:1-16); value: Questions answered with silence and literary frames (1 Samuel 14:37 and 28:6); value: The triumph of irony by means of a thread-and-frame (1 Samuel 18:7, 21:12, and 29:5 ); value: Sequential questions I (1 Samuel 26:6-25); value: Sequential questions II (2 Samuel 19:32-44); value: Sequential questions III (1 Samuel 20); value: Questions and the characterization of God (2 Samuel 7:1-17); value: The duplicitous question (1 Kings 1:11-31); value: Questions as literary threads (Haggai-Zechariah 1-8).