Sentences with word «chiastic»

He posits a chain of chiastic structures for each cycle of stories, but does not mention Gary Rendsburg's similar work in The Redaction of Genesis.

Raqs Media Collective returns to Frith Street Gallery with an exhibition featuring new and recent work which includes play with words, light and electricity, sign language, chiastic variations, archival traces, counting exercises and insurgent readings of time.

A chiastic literary structure can be viewed as a sort of sandwich, with repetitive parallel elements at the beginning and end as the pieces of bread, similar repetitive elements within those, representing the condiments, and the meat — the main point of the passage — in the middle.

You may notice a bit of a chiastic structure in these four items, where «through faith» is further explained by «not by works» and «not of yourselves» is further explained by «it is a gift of God.»

And extra kudos for using the chiastic structure of scripture in your explanation!

I sometimes wonder if the authors were intentional about adding these chiastic structures or not, but they seem to be found all over the place.

Nevertheless, it seems best to adopt the fifth and final view, for it not only places emphasis on the conceptual phrase which Paul has stated twice, but it also takes notice of the chiastic structure which Paul uses to further explain the gift of God.

As seen in the chiastic structure noted above, the parallel statements «not of yourselves... the gift of God» are not explaining «faith» but are explaining «by grace you have been saved» (See the excellent article by Rene Lopez called «Is Faith a Gift from God?

The discovery of a chiastic structure (in which the structure of the first half of the discourse is mirrored by the second) is used to explicate the theology of the book.

These are not so much categories, but more like a chiastic progression.

LaCugna envisions a chiastic model of emanation and return.

Her chiastic route requires that we look forward to the return to the Father.

Whitney Shiner suggests in Proclaiming the Gospel (Trinity Press) that the chiastic, or concentric, word patterns in Mark were likely fashioned as memory aids to performers.

As he pushes the paint through the pores of the fabric, swaths of tactile protrusions emerge out of the substrate in a chiastic reordering of elements.