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  • From: "Brian Tucker" <music AT riverviewcog.org>
  • To: corpus-paul
  • Subject: Philippians as a Macro-Chiasm
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:16:59


Greetings

Bibliography:

A. Boyd Luter and Michelle V. Lee. "Philippians as Chiasmus: Key to the
Structure, Unity and Theme Questions." _NTS_ vol. 41, 1995, pp. 89-101.

Stanley E. Porter and Jeffrey T. Reed. "Philippians as a Macro-Chiasm and
its Exegetical Significance." _NTS_ vol. 44, 1998, pp. 213-231.

Luter and Lee argue for a chiastic outline of Philippians which provides an
overarching theme of "partnership in the gospel."

Porter and Reed suggest that Luter and Lee lacked "theoreticl foundation"
and "precision of detail or explicit criteria."

They both interact with C. Blomberg's criteria for determining if a
chiastic structure is present. Luter and Lee use his criteria to support
their view, while Porter and Reed are a little more critical.

What I would like to know is:

1. Does anyone on this list have any thoughts on the macro-chiastic
possibilities of Philippians, specifically?

2. Big picture question: What is the basis for determining a Pauline
chiasm, or the tests necessary to determine, for example, verbal
parallelism?

3. Should we reject macro-chiasm and accept Thomson's _Chiasmus in the
Pauline Letters_ intermediate chiasm?

4. What is the set of criteria to identify chiasm? Any bibliography on the
topic would be helpful.

Thanks
Brian Tucker
music AT riveviewcog.org
Riverview, MI






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