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Questions and Rhetoric in the Greek New Testament: An Essential Reference Resource for Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

While there are almost 1000 questions in the Greek New Testament, many commentators, pastors, and students skip over the questions for more ‘theological’ verses or worse they convert questions into statements to mine them for what they are saying theologically. However, this is not the way questions in the Greek New Testament work, and it overlooks the rhetorical importance of questions and how...

The first part of language wherein we will survey the way questions work is in the area of syntax. Syntax is “the analysis of the arrangements of words in phrases, phrases in clauses and clauses in sentences and the grammatical relations between them” (CDL 431). The syntax of questions concerns itself with how these questions are formed. Syntax is the most straightforward part of question interpretation, partly because it tends to be more concrete and partly because Greek
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