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9780391042315

Asking For Rhetoric

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  • ISBN13:

    9780391042315

  • ISBN10:

    0391042319

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-04-29
  • Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Kenneth M. Craig, Jr., is professor of biblical studies at Lees-McRae College.

Table of Contents

Tables viii
Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
1 What Is a Question?
1(10)
2 Fielding Questions in Eden (Genesis 2:16-3:13)
11(16)
3 Fielding Questions outside Eden (Genesis 4:1-16)
27(22)
4 Questions Answered with Silence and Literary Frames (1 Samuel 14:37 and 28:6)
49(24)
5 The Triumph of Irony by Means of a Threadand-Frame (1 Samuel 18:7, 21:12, and 29:5)
73(14)
6 Sequential Questions I (1 Samuel 26:6-25)
87(19)
7 Sequential Questions II (2 Samuel 19:32-44)
106(16)
8 Sequential Questions III (1 Samuel 20)
122(27)
9 Questions and the Characterization of God (2 Samuel 7:1-17)
149(19)
10 The Duplicitous Question (1 Kings 1:11-31) 168(22)
11 Questions as Literary Threads (Haggai to Zechariah 1-8) 190(21)
Bibliography 211(5)
Index 216

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