Asking for Rhetoric

The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-391-04231-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 848 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation 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, 1 Kings, Haggai and Zechariah, Craig demonstrates the nuanced and multifaceted ways in which the Hebrew Bible’s interrogatives function to advance the Bible’s literary and ideological goals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craig, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth M. Craig, Jr., Ph.D. (1989) in Hebrew Bible, Southern Seminary, is Professor of Biblical Studies at Lees-McRae College. He has published A Poetics of Jonah: Art in the Service of Ideology, Reading Esther: A Case for the Literary Carnivalesque, and numerous articles on the literary aspects of biblical narrative.