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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...

underestimate the importance of the questions in the NT for reading the NT. They are included in the NT for a reason—and now, thanks to modern linguistics and related disciplines, we have an opportunity to interpret them with greater skill and acuity than ever before. Imagine for a moment that you were reading a book where someone cut every seventh sentence out of the book. Would you be able to understand the book? Yes. But would you understand or
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