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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...

reader. Another reason they are included is to persuade the reader in the direction they want the reader to go. As readers, our coming to terms with this new information and persuasion helps us understand the meaningful statements that are embedded nearby. The study of questions in the GNT is more complex than it may appear at first glance. There are many different types of questions, each type with a distinct logic and rhetoric, and the great variety of types of questions found in as large a body
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