This is an article I wrote a long time ago, (and which is probably in need of revising at some stage!) It is basically an attempt to show that the events described in the Old Testament account of Absalom’s… Read More ›
Chiastic and Other Structures
Is There a Pattern to the “Anotations” in Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ?
Most of Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ (Matt. 1:2-16) consists of statements of the form “X begat Y”. But there are some additions – called annotations in the literature. In this article, I suggest that these annotations are carefully located in the genealogical… Read More ›
“There is Therefore Now no Condemnation . . “: The Chiastic Structure of Romans 8:1-4
In this post, I wish to present a proposed chiastic analysis of this famous passage of Scripture. This is actually a (slightly modified) chapter from my book Biblical Chiasms in the Interpretation of Scripture, and the page numbers are those of… Read More ›
The Birth of Jesus in Matt. 1:18-25 – Part 5
This is the final chiastic structure that I will be attempting for this passage! It is the one that was referred to as “II” in Part 4 of this series, and is an analysis of the structure of the entire… Read More ›
The Structure of Amos 5:1-17
Amos Ch. 5:1-17 has a well-recognised thematically-based chiastic structure. I have re-analysed this interesting passage, and believe that I have found some “formal” structures (sub-chiasms, parallel structures etc.) which correspond, partly, with the known structures of Hebrew poetry, and which are superimposed… Read More ›
The Birth of Jesus in Matthew 1:18-25 – Part 4
We have been looking at Matt. 1-18-25, and I have been attempting to identify its structural components. I have provisionally divided the passage into four sections, 18– 20a, 20b-21a, 21b-23 and 24-25. I have numbered these 1-4 respectively. The first,… Read More ›
The Birth of Jesus in Matthew 1:18-25 (Part 3)
In the previous post, we looked at the chiastic structure of the first half of Matt. 1:18-25. In this post, I want to suggest a possible structural analysis for the second half—that is from verses 21b –25. We actually divided… Read More ›
The Birth of Jesus in Matt 1:18-25 (Part 2)
In this post, I wish to look at the first half of Matthew 1:18-25. In the previous post, I suggested that Matt. 1:18-25 could be divided into four sections, and we looked at sections 2 and 4 considered together; in… Read More ›
The Birth of Jesus in Matt 1:18-25 (Part 1)
In this post, I wish to start to look at the chiastic structure of Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth in Matt.1:18-25. This is a total of 167 words in the Textus Receptus. (Nestle-Aland has 161 words). I will be working… Read More ›
When Did the Philippian Jailer Believe? – a Proposed Chiastic Analysis of Acts 16:31-34
In Acts Ch. 16 we have the exciting account of Paul and Silas’ arrest and subsequent release from prison. In the centre of this narrative, there is the account of the conversion of the Philippian jailer. Because of the current… Read More ›
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