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The Questions of Jesus in John

Logic, Rhetoric and Persuasive Discourse

Biblical Interpretation Series 115
Author
Douglas Estes
Pages
216
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9789004205109
Year of Release
2012
About the Book

Why do the New Testament gospels depict a Jesus who asks questions almost as often as he gives answers? In The Questions of Jesus in John Douglas Estes crafts a highly interdisciplinary theory of question-asking based on insights from ancient rhetoric and modern erotetics (the study of interrogatives) in order to investigate the logical and rhetorical purposes of Jesus' questions in the Gospel of John. While scholarly discussion about Jesus cares more for what he says, and not what he asks, Estes argues a better understanding of the rhetorical and dialectical roles of questions in ancient narratives sheds a more accurate light on both John’s narrative art and Jesus' message in the Fourth Gospel.

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Reviews

A Provocative Book

Anyone who engages serious research in the Fourth Gospel will want to read The Questions of Jesus in John if not add it to one’s personal library. Estes’ work sheds light upon the numerous passages he addresses and incites fresh thoughts concerning how questions provide structure for John’s Gospel. All who are willing to read through The Questions of Jesus in John will surely appreciate the genius with which the Fourth Gospel was composed. Readers’ senses will doubtless be heightened to pause for reflection upon the import questions contribute to John’s narrative.

  • Ardel B. Caneday
  • Professor of New Testament Studies & Greek, University of Northwestern—Saint Paul

Timely, Rigorous, Challenging

I commend this innovative study in an uncharted area of New Testament studies. Scholars have seemingly neglected the topic of questions in John’s Gospel, and Estes’s study is timely, rigorous, and challenging.

  • Cornelis Bennema
  • Senior Lecturer, Union School of Theology

Lucid Reflections

The book is helpful in that it provides lucid reflections on the value of questions-in-themselves as well as the value of undestanding questions for interpreting the Johannine Jesus. Students and scholars of the Fourth Gospel are strongly encouraged to examine Estes’s work.

  • Christopher W. Skinner
  • Associate Professor of New Testament & Early Christianity, Loyola University Chicago

A Groundbreaking Monograph

The Questions of Jesus in John is not only a groundbreaking monograph in its own right, but it also sheds some light on possible future studies of questions in the New Testament, a topie that has been largely ignored by scholars and theologians alike.

  • Joshua Paul Smith
  • University of Denver

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How John WorksDouglas Estes & Ruth Sheridan

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  • This book introduces the various ways the study of literature has been used in biblical studies. Most literary approaches emphasize the study of the text alone—its structure, its message, and its use of literary devices—rather than its social or historical background. The methods described in this volume are focused on different ways of analyzing the text within its literary context.
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Questions and Rhetoric in the Greek New TestamentDouglas Estes

  • Questions and Rhetoric in the Greek New Testament offers vibrant examples of all the major categories of questions to aid the reader in grasping how questions work in the Greek New Testament. Special emphasis is given to the way questions persuade and influence readers of the Greek New Testament.

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