A nifty trick to make the trick-less nifty. Thanks for the education! Didn't know there was a name for this but I've seen it everywhere, as made obvious by your expansive selection of quotes.
for my next post on Nicomachean Exhortations, I'm looking to apply this.
'Those who listen to do, do well to listen.'
anybody here have better variations on this? I feel like its not clear enough yet. I'm trying to express that those that have the capability to act on wisdom are those that benefit in learning wisdom
May be of interest: Old testament scholars apply chiasmus to stories there. Not on verses but on whole stories. Often the middle verse has a key turming point.
Theres quite a lot of chiastic now that i thunk of it. Im not a scholar- but heres a few ofnthe varieties i know of, not only the narrative.
1) Genesis ch. 4 keeps doing Cain-Abel, Abel-Cain. It helps create a beautiful and nuanced contrast while keeping the plot moving
2) starting from proverbs 10 (where the aphoristic one liners start) there are chiastic structures sometimes, but i dont know whats kept in the translations, as usual the original is always the best)
3) for narratives Genesis 38 can be mapped pretty nicely. The middle shows Tamar's loyalty to her dead husbands, contrasted to the deciet and disloyalty to all the other characters. (Levirate marriqge is about continuingbthebname of the deceased, as expressed also in deuteronomy) keep in mind that the verses are conjecture, in the sense that formal,official punctuattion os post biblical additions
A nifty trick to make the trick-less nifty. Thanks for the education! Didn't know there was a name for this but I've seen it everywhere, as made obvious by your expansive selection of quotes.
Thank you, and I like your very clever comment
for my next post on Nicomachean Exhortations, I'm looking to apply this.
'Those who listen to do, do well to listen.'
anybody here have better variations on this? I feel like its not clear enough yet. I'm trying to express that those that have the capability to act on wisdom are those that benefit in learning wisdom
Ended up doing a small variation. After one force, i'll keep an eye out for more oppotunities.
Also- i copied your small paragraph-tweetesque style. It fits real natural with phone reading, much more than long paragraphs.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nicomachean/p/knowledge-that-penetrates?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
May be of interest: Old testament scholars apply chiasmus to stories there. Not on verses but on whole stories. Often the middle verse has a key turming point.
Brilliant insight!
Do you know of any specific examples?
Theres quite a lot of chiastic now that i thunk of it. Im not a scholar- but heres a few ofnthe varieties i know of, not only the narrative.
1) Genesis ch. 4 keeps doing Cain-Abel, Abel-Cain. It helps create a beautiful and nuanced contrast while keeping the plot moving
2) starting from proverbs 10 (where the aphoristic one liners start) there are chiastic structures sometimes, but i dont know whats kept in the translations, as usual the original is always the best)
3) for narratives Genesis 38 can be mapped pretty nicely. The middle shows Tamar's loyalty to her dead husbands, contrasted to the deciet and disloyalty to all the other characters. (Levirate marriqge is about continuingbthebname of the deceased, as expressed also in deuteronomy) keep in mind that the verses are conjecture, in the sense that formal,official punctuattion os post biblical additions
Thank you kindly
Excellent. When are you coming back on twitter?
Thanks bro, honored by your friendship.
Reaching out to you now.
Learn Chiasmus to become better writers, and in time, our writing will improve through the use of Chiasmus.
Thanks, I hate it!