Matt 11:28-30
Jonathan Ryder
jpr1001 at cam.ac.uk
Tue May 18 04:26:20 EDT 1999
"Kevin L. Barney" wrote:
> Hi, Steve--
>
> The bibliographic index in _Chiasmus in Antiquity_ reports that Nils
Lund
> addresses these verses in his _Chiasmus in the New Testament_ (Chapel
Hill:
> University of North Carolina Press, 1942), at pages 298-301. Lund is
also
> cited by Angelico Di Marco in an unpublished manuscript, _Il Chiasmo
nella
> Bibbia_ (Messina 1975), which is available in German translation in
> Linguistica Biblica 39:40. The Di Marco manuscript is pretty obscure,
but
> I'm sure a number of b-greekers would have a copy of Lund on their
shelf (I
> do not), and perhaps someone would be willing to look this up for you.
>
> The chiasm I see would be something like
>
> A. heavy laden
> B. yoke upon you
> C. heart
> C'. souls
> B'. yoke is easy
> A'. burden is light
>
> where heart//souls is a Semitic parallel word pair. If this is a
> legitimate chiasm, unless I am missing something it is rather loosely
woven
> across the three verses. (I would however be curious to see what Lund
has
> to say if anyone has the volume handy.)
>
> Kevin L. Barney
Hi Kevin and Steve and b-greekers worldwide,
I don't have time to do this, but I happened to have Lund on my desk,
and so couldn't
resist:
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are *heavy laden*
And I will give you *rest*
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me
For I am meek and lowly of heart
And ye shall find *rest* unto your souls
For my yoke is easy and my *burden* light
* are mine indicating some of key terms in chiasm. Lund states there are
2
corresponding terms in line 1 and 6 and two in line's 3 and 4
For what it's worth, Lund is here discussing Luke's transformation of Mt
11:25-30,
where 25-26=A, 27=B, 28-30=C, where A,B,C are each chiasms and there is
a progressive
thought through A to C ...
Luke quotes A verbatim, modifies B and omits C
Jonathan Ryder
Cambridge
UK
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