Item Detail
-
31775
-
3
-
4
-
English
-
Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon
-
Chiasmus in Antiquity : Structures, Analyses, Exegesis
-
Provo, UT
-
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
-
198-210
-
"The Book of Mormon, especially in its most literary portions, is replete with precise and extensive chiastic compositions. These passages are often meaningfully creative, original, and intricate, judged to be highly successful by any consistently applied criteria. The purpose of this essay is to display a few of the most salient chiastic arrangements in the Book of Mormon. However one views this book, no judgment concerning it can consider itself complete without at least taking into account the chiastic literary character of much of this writing. Several such passages will be discussed and then, in conclusion, the significance of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon will be briefly considered, first in respect to the Book of Mormon and then in the light of what this may mean for chiastic analysis generally." [Author]