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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
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
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==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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