Asking for Rhetoric - The Hebrew Bible's Protean Interrogative

Craig provides fresh insight into the literary and rhetorical features of the many question forms that appear in the Hebrew Bible. Particularly attention is given to question clusters in Genesis, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, Haggai and Zechariah.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Craig
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2005
• EAN: 9780391042315
• ISBN: 978-0-391-04231-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 238 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 848 g
• Series: Biblical Interpretation
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations