Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis

Title

Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis

Publication Type

Book

Year of Publication

1981

Editors

Welch, John W. (Primary)

Publisher

Gerstenberg Verlag

City

Hildesheim

ISBN Number

3-8067-0797-9

Abstract

The study of ancient literature has been enriched in the second half of the 20th century by the growing awareness and understanding of chiasmus in ancient literature. This form of inverted parallelism has been found in the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and and in many other ancient writings. The essays in Chiasmus in Antiquity examine the use and effect of chiasmus in the Old and New Testaments and the Book of Mormon, as well as in Sumero-Akkadian, Ugaritic, Talmudic, Greek, and Latin literatures.

Table of Contents

13 Chapters

Preface

Freedman, David Noel | pp. 7–8

Introduction

Welch, John W. | pp. 9–16

Chiasm in Sumero-Akkadian

Smith, Robert F. | pp. 17–35

Chiasmus in Ugaritic

Welch, John W. | pp. 36–49

Chiasmus in Hebrew Biblical Narrative

Radday, Yehuda T. | pp. 50–117

Chiastic Patterns in Biblical Hebrew Poetry

Watson, Wilfred G.E. | pp. 118–168

Structure and Chiasm in Aramaic Contracts and Letters

Porten, Bezalel | pp. 169–182

Chiasmus in Talmudic-Aggadic Narrative

Fraenkel, Jonah | pp. 183–197

Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon

Welch, John W. | pp. 198–210

Chiasmus in the New Testament

Welch, John W. | pp. 211–249

Chiasmus in Ancient Greek and Latin Literatures

Welch, John W. | pp. 250–268

Bibliography

Welch, John W. | pp. 269–286

Index

Smith, Robert F. | pp. 287–352

Subject Keywords

Chiasmus

Language – Hebrew

Language - Greek

Language - Latin

Narrative

Poetry

Language - Ugaritic

Old Testament

Hebrew Bible

New Testament

Book of Mormon

Bibliographic Citation

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