Edited by John W. Welch and Donald W. Parry
Innovative and significant, these studies provide a timely and essential sequel to the widely cited reference work "Chiasmus in Antiquity" (1981)
"Chiasmus: The State of the Art" now productively analyzes a similar variety of chiastic structural features in such texts as the flood narratives in Genesis and in the Epic of Gilgamesh; legal texts in Leviticus and Deuteronomy; homicide narratives in scripture and apocrypha; prophetic passages in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Nephi; pedagogical and rhetorical features of New Testament works of Matthew, Luke, John, and Hebrews; as well as impressive structures in the Book of Mormon and Mesoamerican texts. Also included are very useful discussions of methodological criteria, statistical probabilities, and the latest bibliographic resources.