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Article: Chiasmus in the Pauline Letters
- Article from:
- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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IAN H. THOMSON, Chiasmus in the Pauline Letters (JSNTSup 111; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995). Pp. 253. L30, $45.
This work is a revised version of the author's Ph.D. thesis written under the supervision of Dr. John M. G. Barclay of the University of Glasgow. The first chapter is a discussion of chiasmus and of the author's methodology. Dr. Thomson describes chiasmus as "bilateral symmetry about a central axis" (p. 25, emphasis in original). He then lays out six more provisional characteristics that are probably typical of chiasmus, though these will be subject to confirmation based on the analyses of the proposed chiasmus: (1) a shift (either in syntax or content) at the center ...