Chiasmus Jubilee

The Greatness of the Evidence

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Chiasmus Jubilee Program

Session 1: Chiasmus Methodology: Criteria, Character, and Terminology

Chiasmus Criteria in Review

Neal Rappleye

Statistics, Probability, and Evaluation of Chiasmus

Boyd F. Edwards

Characteristics of Chiasms: Identifying, Evaluating, and Appreciating Chiastic Texts with Care, Concern, and Humility

Stephen Kent Ehat

Chiasmus and Hebrew Rhetoric

Noel B. Reynolds

When is a Chiasm a Chiasm?

Panel Discussion

Session 2: Chiasmus and Textual Criticism

The Pleasures and Perils of Chiasmus: Some Case Studies from Exodus and Deuteronomy

Bernard Levinson

“With Outstretched Hand and with Strong Arm” (Deut 4:34); “With Strong Arm and with Outstretched Hand” (Jer 21:5): Chiasmus in Deuteronomy and Jeremiah

David Rolph Seely

Chiasmus in the Text of Isaiah: MT Isaiah Versus the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa^a)

Donald W. Parry

Poetic Structures and Textual Criticism of the Book of Mormon

Royal Skousen

Session 3: Chiasmus and Ancient Cultures

Chiasmus in the Book of Genesis

Gary A. Rendsburg

Chiasmus in Gilgamesh and the Genesis Flood Story

Steven R. Scott

Narrating Homicides Chiastically

John W. Welch

Chiastic Messaging in Mesoamerican Texts

Kerry Hull

Session 4: Chiasmus in the New Testament

Chiasmus in the Christocentric Literary-Dramatic Structure of John's Gospel

George Mlakuzhyil S.J.

Methodology and the Macro-Structure of John