UID:
almahu_9949703759802882
Format:
1 online resource.
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Asking for Rhetoric : The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005 ISBN 9780391042315
Language:
English
