Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon

TitleChiasmus in the Book of Mormon
Publication TypeWeb project page
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsLindsay, Jeff
Abstract

In the late 1960s, a young Latter-day Saint discovered that an ancient form of Middle Eastern poetry was found throughout the Book of Mormon, suggestive of its ancient Semitic origins. This poetical form, chiasmus, a type of inverted parallelism, reaches highly artistic heights in the Book of Mormon and is difficult to ascribe to chance. Yet the information available to Joseph Smith when the Book of Mormon was translated provided nothing to guide him in crafting such structures. Could this be part of a growing body of evidence for ancient Semitic origins for the text? This page is one of several pages in a suite of "Frequently Asked Questions about Latter-day Saint Beliefs" maintained by Jeff Lindsay, a Book of Mormon aficionado who takes full responsibility for this work, which is neither sponsored nor endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

URLhttp://www.jefflindsay.com/chiasmus.shtml