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