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Learn more about chiasmus in the Book of Mormon
Key sources
  • Jack Welch, "'Forty-five Years of Chiasmus Conversations, Criteria, and Creativity: What Chiasmus Proves and Does Not Prove'," Proceedings of the 2012 FAIR Conference (August 2012). link
  • John W. Welch, "How Much Was Known about Chiasmus in 1829 When the Book of Mormon Was Translated?," FARMS Review 15/1 (2003). [47–80] link
Wiki links
FAIR links
Online
  • Steven T. Densley, Jr., "Celebrating the Work of John W. Welch," Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 28/3 (19 January 2018). [37–48] link}
  • Stephen Kent Ehat, "Asymmetry in Chiasms, With a Note About Deuteronomy 8 and Alma 36," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 59/8 (1 December 2023). [191–280] link
  • Steven L. Olsen, "Much More than a Reader: The Latest in Chiastic Studies for Interested Scholars and Lay Readers Alike," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44/6 (9 April 2021). [265–270] link
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "Chiastic Structuring of Large Texts: Second Nephi as a Case Study," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41/10 (7 December 2020). [193–210] link
  • Derek Squire, "The Literary Structure of Alma 17–20: A 14-Unit Chiasm," Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 60/2 (12 January 2024). [87–136] link
  • Allen J. Christenson, "Chiasmus in Mayan Texts," Ensign 18 (October 1988): 28. off-site
  • Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards, "When Are Chiasms Admissible as Evidence?," Brigham Young University Studies 49 no. 4 (2010), 131–156. off-site
  • Cynthia L. Hallen, "What's in a Word?," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 10/2 (2001). link
  • Scot Hanson and Daniel B. McKinlay, "A Selective Bibliography of Book of Mormon Literary Features," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16/2 (2007). [88–91] link
  • Heather Hardy, "Another Testament of Jesus Christ: Mormon’s Poetics," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16/2 (2007). [16–28] link
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "Nephi's Outline," Brigham Young University Studies 20 no. 2 (1980), 131–49.off-site
  • Jo Ann H. Seely, "Review of The Book of Mormon Text Reformatted according to Parallelistic Patterns by Donald W. Parry," FARMS Review of Books 5/1 (1993): 203–208. off-site
  • David E. Sloan, "Nephi's Convincing of Christ through Chiasmus: Plain and Precious Persuading from a Prophet of God," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 6/2 (1997). [67–98] link
  • Robert F. Smith, "Assessing the Broad Impact of Jack Welch’s Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16/2 (2007). [68–73] link
  • John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon," Brigham Young University Studies 10 no. 1 (1969), 69–84. off-site
  • John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon," New Era (February 1976), 6. off-site
  • John W. Welch, "Criteria for Identifying and Evaluating the Presence of Chiasmus," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 4/2 (1995). [1–4] link
  • John W. Welch, "How Much Was Known about Chiasmus in 1829 When the Book of Mormon Was Translated?," FARMS Review 15/1 (2003): 47–80. off-site
  • John W. Welch, "The Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon: Forty Years Later," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 16/2 (2007). [74–87] link
Print
LDS
  • Allen J. Christenson, "Chiasmums in Mesoamerican Texts," in Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, edited by John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co.; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1991), 233–234. GL direct link
  • Allen J. Christenson, "The Use of Chiasmus in Ancient Mesoamerica," (Provo: F.A.R.M.S., 1988).
  • Noel B. Reynolds, "Nephi's Outline," in Noel B. Reynolds and Charles D. Tate (eds.), Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins (Provo, Utah : Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ; Salt Lake City, Utah : Distributed by Bookcraft, 1996 [1982]), 53–74.ISBN 0934893187. ISBN 0884944697.
  • John W. Welch, "A Masterpiece: Alma 36," in Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, edited by John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co.; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1991), 114–131. GL direct link
  • John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon," in Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds, (Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997),33–52. ISBN 093489325X ISBN 0934893187 ISBN 0884944697. off-site GL direct link
  • John W. Welch, Chiasmus In Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis (Provo, Utah: FARMS, Research Press, 1981[1989]), 5. ISBN 0934893330. ISBN 3806707979. FAIR link
  • John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in Hel. 6:7–13" (Provo: FARMS, 1987). See also John W. Welch, "Chiasmus in Hel. 6:7–13," in Reexploring the Book of Mormon, edited by John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1992), 230–232.GL direct link

Non–LDS

  • J. R. Lundbom, Jeremiah: A Study in Ancient Hebrew Rhetoric (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1997).
  • P. Trible, Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994).
  • O. S. F. S. Ceresco, "A Rhetorical Analysis of David's `Boast' (1 Sam. 17:34–37): Some Reflections on Method," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 47 (1985): 58–74.
  • I. M. Kikawada, "The Shape of Genesis 11:1–9," in Rhetorical Criticism: Essays in Honor of James Muilenburg, ed. J. J. Jackson and M. Kessler (Pittsburgh: Pickwick, 1974), 18–32.
  • G. Ridoud, "The Rape of Tamar: A Rhetorical Analysis of 1 Sam. 31:1–22," in Rhetorical Criticism, 75–84.
  • M. Butterworth, Structure and the Book of Zachariah, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament sup 130 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992).
  • Y. Zakovitch, "Every High Official Has a Higher One Set over Him": A Literary Analysis of 2 Kings 5 (Hebrew) (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1985), 86.
  • N. Klaus, Pivot Patterns in the Former Prophets, JSOT sup 247 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), 253–56.
  • F. I. Andersen, The Sentence in Biblical Hebrew (The Hague, 1974), 119–40, 140 n. 1
  • A. R. Ceresko, "The A:B::B:A: A Word Pattern in Hebrew and Northwest Semitic, with Special Reference to the Book of Job," Ugarit–Forschungen 7 (1975): 73–88, "The Chiastic Word Pattern in Hebrew," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 38 (1976): 303–11, and "The Function of Chiasmus in Hebrew Poetry," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 40 (1978): 1–10
  • G. E. Watson, Traditional Techniques in Classical Hebrew Verse, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament sup 170 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994), 311–91.
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