Chiasmus in Antiquity

Kevin L. Barney klbarney at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 13 11:26:27 EST 1999


George and others have been doing some posting on chiasmus in the GNT.  I 
just thought I would pass along something I received in the mail 
yesterday.

The classic work _Chiasmus in Antiquity: Structures, Analyses, Exegesis_, 
which was first published in Germany in 1981 and has been out of print for 
a decade, has now been republished in the United States in a paperback 
edition.

The book includes chapters on chiasmus in Ugaritic, the New Testament, 
Sumero-Akkadian, Hebrew Biblical Narrative, Biblical Hebrew Poetry, Aramaic 
contracts and letters, the Book of Mormon [John Welch, the editor, is a 
Mormon], and ancient Greek and Latin authors.  Contributors include Welch, 
Robert F. Smith,  Yehuda Radday, Wilfred G.E. Watson, Bezalel Porten, with 
a preface by David Noel Freedman.  Important features are an extensive, 
updated bibliography and an index of chiastic passages.

The price for this softbound edition is $19.95 plus shipping and handling 
(I never bought the German edition because I was a poor student and it was 
much more expensive.  There have, however, been times when I have regretted 
that decision, and I am sending for the paperback today).

If anyone is interested, ordering information is available by calling 
1-800-327-6715.

(Just so it's clear, I have no interest in pushing this book; I am simply 
making the information available for those who may have been trying to find 
the difficult to locate first edition.)

Kevin L. Barney
Hoffman Estates, Illinois
klbarney at yahoo.com



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