Talk:Question-and-answer literature

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@Pogenplain: The new title seems too broad. Are the Byzantines the only ones with question and answer literature? And why is 'answer' capitalized? Srnec (talk) 03:50, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Srnec: You are right that Answers does not need a capitalization. I think while Byzantines made the genre very popular it did not begin with them but that the genre starts among the Greek patristics, for example https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503590752-1 and https://www.google.com/books/edition/Greek_Literature_in_Late_Antiquity/4eQFDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA94&printsec=frontcover . When I read the literature I see in English it is called usually 'question and answer' literature and the use of erotapokriseis is always italicized as a Greek word. In other cultures I think yes there is the question and answers genre, like in Syriac https://www.academia.edu/5463270/Question_and_Answer_Collections_in_Syriac_Literature and it developed early in Islam (Unlocking the Medinan Quran p. 166). I think it is unnecessary to have a separate page for each of them as they likely are related in their development. The page can be like the one for disputation literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation where page sections are given for the different cultures which used it. And because question-and-answer literature is not just used in Greek texts then erotapokriseis becomes too narrow. Pogenplain (talk) 23:47, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply