Theodoret of Cyrus: The Questions on the Octateuch Volume 2 on Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and RuthShortly before his death (ca. 460), as his health was failing, Theodoret decided to undertake a monumental project of exegesis. In the more than two decades of his episcopacy, he had commented on both the prophets and the sapiential literature of the Hebrew Scriptures. Now he would expound the historical books. For his commentary on the Octateuch, he adopted the format of question and answer. This device allowed the expositor to focus attention on