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  • From: Oun Kwon <kwonbbl AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] And Elohim called light 'Day' and darkness hecalled night
  • Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:59:11 -0400

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:47 PM, <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:
> I'm a little surprised that nobody has mentioned the obvious chiasmus in
> this verse.  It's
> basically a textbook example.  F. I. Andersen suggested long ago that the
> chiastic device is
> used to show two sides of the same coin, so to speak: he called the light
> "day;" on the flip
> side, he called the darkness "night."  I suspect the difference between him
> and Sailhamer is
> that Andersen posits this force for all types of chiasmus, not just
> wayyiqtol/qatal.
>
>
> Dave Washburn
>

To me, it's parallelism. For a chiasmus don't we expect

A
B
A'

something like that?

Oun Kwon.




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