Chiastic structure resource

Hi,

is anyone able to recommend a resource that deals with chiams in the Bible? The best would be a book by book chiastic outline of Bible, if a resource like that exists.

Thanks.

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Rosie Perera

The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: A Commentary on Genesis–Malachi by David Dorsey does that for the OT. I don't know of one that does it for the New.

Jerome Smith

The Companion Bible provides helpful examples of chiasmus in its margins. See the structure of the book of James, for example.

There is a book on this subject by Nils W. Lund, Chiasmus in the New Testament: A Study in the Form and Function of Chiastic Structures, 1942, University of North Carolina Press. Reprinted in 1992 by Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 0-943575-92-3.

I have given a list of the "inverted parallelisms" (another term for chiasms) in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge at Genesis 3:19, key word return. This resource is available in Logos.

MJ. Smith

The Shape of Biblical Language: Chiasmus in the Scriptures and Beyond Edition 2 by John Breck is the best I know.

Jerome Smith

I have placed a note at Genesis 43:3 in my book, The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, on the figure of speech chiasmus.

I knew that note existed, but could not find it using a printed copy of the book, for the note is not listed in any of the New Treasury indexes, so I could not include the reference in my previous comment above. Today I accessed my updated edition of this resource, The Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury, and found the sought-for note using its more complete indexes.

Tim

Thank you all.

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Search suggestion for chiastic articles is:

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Beloved Amodeo

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I did a similar search, but in Theological Journals.

chiastic OR chiasm

Rob

The Redaction of Genesis by Gary A. Rendsburg

"Let us assume a paradigm cycle of ten episodes or units, which are aligned in the order ABCDEE'D'C'B'A'. (The order of the Primeval History, the only one without chiasm, would be ABCDEA'B'C'D'E'.) Each chapter begins with such an outline, presenting the matched units. I then proceed to the meatiest part of each chapter, the presentation of each pair of matched units within each cycle, first A and A', then B and B', etc. After a brief discussion of the parallel ideas, motifs, and story lines, I present the theme-words which highlight the relationship between the two units. First I list those theme-words which have been adduced by previous scholars (mainly Sasson for Primeval History, Sarna for Abraham Cycle, and Fishbane for Jacob Cycle), and then I advance my own contributions."

Gary Rendsburg, Redaction of Genesis (Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana, 1986), 4.

Arby McPatriot

I bought the book, Joshua's Spiritual Warfare which is great and explains chiastic structures in the Bible.

https://bible-discernments.com/

MJ. Smith

Search suggestion for chiastic articles is:

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Unfortunately, in doing my own research I discovered that different commentaries name them differently so that this search picked up only about half the occurrences. Also some source do not call it a chiasm if it lacks a central point, others do.