Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Oun Kwon <kwonbbl AT gmail.com>]

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.