Acts 1:11 is widely interpreted as referring specifically to a still future return of Jesus Christ at the end of history, or a return which inaugurates a series of eschatological events still in the future. In this article, the view… Read More ›
Chiasms
Chiastic Analysis of Jonah 1:16-2:10
Continuing the structural analysis of the book of Jonah, here is a chiastic analysis of Jonah 1:16-2:10, the famous passage where Jonah is swallowed by a great fish. The article is in the form of a Word document which can… 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 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 ›
A Davidic Key to Matthew’s Genealogy
In an informative and wide-ranging article, “The Davidic Key for Counting the Generations in Matthew 1:17” in a 2014 issue of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Australian scholar Stephen Carlson reviews solutions, as well as proposing his own solution , to… Read More ›
A Chiastic Feature of Matthew’s Genealogy of Christ (Matt. 1:2-16)
Matthew says in Matt.1:1 that Jesus is the son of Abraham and the son of David. In his Genealogy of Christ which goes from verses 2 to 16, there are three sections. The first runs from Abraham to David, and… Read More ›
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