“In rhetoric, chiasmus (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, ‘crossing’, from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, ‘to shape like the letter Χ’) is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism.”
“Chiasmus,” Wikipedia, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus>
I first learned about the teaching tool of chiastic structures through Tony Robinson’s Parashat haShavuah series of Bible studies via Restoration of Torah Ministries.
I have been mapping the chiastic structures of Scripture independently since, and have nearly all of Torah, Job, the Psalms, and the New Testament mapped, and many more isolated structures besides throughout the Bible. In fact I believe the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation forms a single great chiastic structure, which I have begun to map. I hope to publish what it has been my delight to uncover concerning the Bible’s amazing chiastic structures in the future.
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