Asking Questions in Biblical Texts

✍ Scribed by B. J. Koet (editor), A. L. H. M. Van Wieringen (editor)

• Publisher: Peeters
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 409
• Series: Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology; 114
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume makes clear that questions are very important. Questions are in fact very common in the Bible, but their role in the text has strangely enough rarely been explored. In this volume, authors from several backgrounds deal with the phenomenon of 'question' while discussing various books of both the Old and New Testament, as well as Qumran and Rabbinic Literature. It is indeed often for the first time that the role of questions is examined in the relevant texts. Questions appear to have specific communicative functions. An evaluation of the phenomenon of 'question' in biblical and cognate literature from the perspective of education concludes this volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Questioning the Phenomenon of Questions: An Introduction to Asking Questions in Biblical Texts • Bart J. Koet & Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen
Unease as Plaything between Questions and Answers: The Promise of Progeny for Abraham in Genesis 12–25 • Willem A.M. Beuken
Questions in Numbers 11 • Penelope Barter
Questions Posed in Deuteronomy 6: Learning and Teaching the Ways of God • Richard J. Bautch
The Questions in Ezra and Nehemiah • Bob Becking
‘Who am I to disobey my lord?’ (Judith 12:14): Asking Questions in the Book of Judith • Barbara Schmitz
Do Contradictory Readings of the Question by Job’s Wife Really Matter? • Sehoon Jang
In Search of God: Asking Questions in the Psalms • Harm vam Grol
Asking Questions in the book of Ben Sira: Their Form and Function • Pancratius C. Beentjes
Questions in Isaiah’s Woe Oracles against the Rulers of His People (Isaiah 10:1–4) and Assyrian Power (Isaiah 10:5–15) • Joachim Eck
The Question of the Word of God: The Communicative Function of the Questions in Amos 3:3–8 • Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen
Q Document Means ‘Question Document’: Form and Function of Jesus’ Questions in the Sayings Source • Ruben Zimmermann
Questions in the Gospel of Mark: Two Examples (1:24; 16:3) • Geert Van Oyen
Counter-questions in the Gospel of Luke: An Assessment • Bart J. Koet
Unasked Questions in the Gospel of John: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Hypothetical Discourse • Douglas Estes
A Question of Misunderstanding or a Misunderstood Question?: Exegetical Comments on Acts 1:6 • Arie W. Zwiep
An Erōtēsis in Romans 8:31–39: On the Importance of Questions and Question Marks • Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte
Questions as Rhetorical Tools in 1 Corinthians 11:22 • Ignas W. Tilma
Asking Questions in the Revelation of John • Hanna Roose
Asking Questions in Qumran Literature • Albert L.A. Hogeterp
Some Observations on the Importance of Questions in Rabbinic Tradition and Halakhah • Leon Mock
Disturbing Questions: Observations on the Rhetoric of Two Rabbinic Parables • Eric Ottenheijm
Educational Perspectives on Questions in Biblical Texts • Hanna Roose
Index of References
Index of Modern Authors