The Questions of Jesus in John - Logic, Rhetoric and Persuasive Discourse

In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern linguistics in order to investigate the logical and rhetorical purposes of Jesus' questions in the Fourth Gospel.

About the author

Douglas Estes, Ph.D. (2006) in Theology, University of Nottingham, is currently postdoctoral research fellow at the Dominican Biblical Institute, Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of several books including SimChurch (Zondervan, 2009) and The Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel (Brill, 2008).

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Charles Estes
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2012
• EAN: 9789004205109
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20510-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Biblical Interpretation
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations