chiasms
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Is there a way to search for chiasms in a book of the bible?
Chiasms are interpretive. My favorite resource is https://www.logos.com/product/39605/the-literary-structure-of-the-old-testament-a-commentary-on-genesis-malachi
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This is a wonderful topic of great significance. https://www.chiasmusxchange.com/explanatory-notes/ What is your level of understanding in order to recommend resources? We read Scripture as we read any literary work, to understand its meaning. Meaning is usually expressed through narrative development, that is, through the unfolding of a story. Meaning, however, can also be expressed by "parallelism:" the juxtaposition of ideas and images typical of poetry or musical compositions. A complex yet beautiful example of such parallelism is known as chiasmus. This is a literary form that has seldom been studies in depth, although it appears with great frequency throughout the Old and New Testaments, as it does in other ancient and many modern literary works.
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See this forum discussion for more details as well. https://community.logos.com/forums/t/180825.aspx
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This is a literary form that has seldom been studies in depth,
I disagree with this statement unless it refers solely to Western academic studies. My recommendation remains the same as in the thread you cited.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Maybe not connected to searching fro chiasms, but is there a way to "mark" these sections in Logos for future study...like a good visual flter or something like that.
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but is there a way to "mark" these sections in Logos for future study
There is no dataset on literary structures in Logos/Verbum although I have requested such a set in the past. You can build one of your own with labels that is quite satisfactory. You need to use your own judgement as to which of the proposed chiasms are actual vs. those that are proposed. There are some rather odd proposals out there that fail, for example, to recognize the Jewish order of the Old Testament is not the Christian order.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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