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    "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
    "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
    "technical_name": "Forensic Interrogation",
    "alternate_names": "Courtroom question; judicial question; trial question",
    "page_slug": "forensic-question",
    "reader_category": "Legal / Judgment Speech",
    "bullinger_class": "Legal and rhetorical form / judicial interrogation",
    "simple_definition": "A forensic question is a courtroom-like question that presses guilt, innocence, justice, or accountability.",
    "technical_definition": "A forensic question functions as judicial interrogation: it does not merely request information but summons the hearer to answer before God, conscience, covenant, or public truth.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized legal-rhetorical category; verify against context before live publication.",
    "canonical_url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/figures-of-speech-in-the-bible/forensic-question/",
    "json_sidecar_path": "/data/figures-of-speech/forensic-question.json",
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      "example_id": "EX17_1477",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Gen. 18:25",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?",
      "explanation": "Abraham frames the question judicially, appealing to God's own justice.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1478",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Job 38:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations?",
      "explanation": "The LORD questions Job to place him before divine wisdom and creaturely limitation.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1479",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Isa. 1:18",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Come now, and let us reason together",
      "explanation": "The summons has a legal tone, bringing Judah into dispute before the LORD.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1480",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Mic. 6:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "O my people, what have I done unto thee?",
      "explanation": "The LORD interrogates His people in covenant lawsuit form.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1481",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Mal. 1:6",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "If I then be a father, where is mine honour?",
      "explanation": "The question presses Israel's guilt by forcing the logic of their dishonour.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1482",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Rom. 8:33",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?",
      "explanation": "The question functions as courtroom assurance: no charge can overturn God's justification.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1483",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Rom. 8:34",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Who is he that condemneth?",
      "explanation": "The question denies any final condemning verdict against those in Christ.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX17_1484",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Rom. 8:35",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?",
      "explanation": "The question tests every hostile power and answers with covenant assurance.",
      "certainty": "probable",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX17_1485",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Heb. 2:3",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "How shall we escape?",
      "explanation": "The question presses accountability for neglecting salvation.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
      "review_status": "draft-normalized"
    },
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      "example_id": "EX17_1486",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0342",
      "figure_name": "Forensic Question",
      "page_slug": "forensic-question",
      "reference": "Rev. 6:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Who shall be able to stand?",
      "explanation": "The question functions judicially before the wrath of the Lamb.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Draft-normalized biblical rhetoric dataset",
      "source_section": "Wave 17 disputation, witness, and commissioning forms",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Verify against final site Bible text stream, source taxonomy, and original-language/context review before publication.",
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    }
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