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A New Witness for Christ - The Structure of the Chiasmus Comprises Repeated Sets of Identical or Related ...
H. Clay Gorton

Cedar Fort Inc, 1997

Chiasmus is a literary form which is used extensively in the Bible. The structure of the chiasmus comprises repeated sets of identical or related words, phrases or concepts; the second set is a repetition of the first, but is used in inverse order, as A, B - B, A. Matthew 19:30 contains a well-known chiasmus: "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." Many chiasma are extensive and involve a central theme as well as ...

A New Witness for Christ: Chiastic Structures in the Book of Mormon

1 review
H. Clay Gorton

Horizon Pub & Dist Inc, 1997

Well-meaning, but flawed
While one can credit the auhtor for reading the Book of Mormon text carefully to find chiasmus, he does a rather poor job. Firstly, he has no discussion on methodology and the like, instead, he treates chiasmus and chiastic structures as one and the same--they are not, however, contra popular belief among LDS and non-LDS (usually critics) alike. Chiastic structures, which permeate this text, are ...