Questions and Rhetoric in the Greek New Testament: An Essential Reference Resource for Exegesis (Biblia.com)

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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...

are not really categories; they are broad terms that have become almost meaningless. All questions—by their nature as questions—are both informational and rhetorical. The concept of the “rhetorical question” is a late invention; there is no similar all-inclusive category in thinkers such as Quintilian or in the rhetorical and grammatical manuals from antiquity.16 So as to prepare the reader for later chapters: there is no such thing in ancient Greek (or the GNT) as a “rhetorical question.” To be

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