Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047415039
,
9780391042315
Series Statement:
Biblical Interpretation Series 73
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Asking for Rhetoric : The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative Leiden : BRILL, 2005 ISBN 9780391042315
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789047415039
