Chiasmus Resources

1-153

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 24-25; cf. Hallo & van Dijk Exaltation 10,44-63.

146

Hallo & van Dijk Exaltation 63; “abrupt turnabout” at “syntactic reversal.”

24-25 ∥110-111

Kramer ANET 3^rd ed. 54 n. 32.

218-267

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 22; chiastic symmetry of kurgarru and kalaturru.

(4 lines)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 17-18; loves, hates/city, me ∥hate, loves/me, city.

115-207

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 20; ABA or inclusion – direct parallels surrounding the “Golden Age Passage” (136-155); cf Alster RA 67:101ff, on lines 115-135 ∥187-207 (with134-135 ∥206-207).

75-88

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 19; enclosure of 9-day gestation period; ABA; Nintu = Ninursag; cf Gen 1.

75-76

R. Smith

210-218 (9 lines)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 23; featuring Ur.

(6 lines)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 19; two chiasms (bicola) enclosed by “the abyss”; ABA.

4-5

R. Smith; reversal of “heaven” and “earth”; cf “Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld” 8-9.

(2 lines)

R. Smith; cf Jacobsen Toward the Image of Tammuz 110.

(end-2 lines)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 17; abcd:cbad.

12-19

? R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 23

40 ∥64

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 20; inclusion – envelopes arguments of Dumuzi (41-63); ABA.

(5 lines)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 22; abba.

(7 lines)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 22-23; abcbcb(a).

Kramer Sacred Marriage Rite 32 end, cited in Kitchen BIIW 97.

1-3

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 19; ABA.

8-9

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 17; reversal of “heaven” & “earth”; cf “Enlil and the Creation of the Pickax” 4-5.

137-259

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 30; cf 150 ∥251-252; cf Gilgamesh XI, and Atraasis III; see W. Shea, Origins, 18/1 (1991), 10-26; I. Kikawada, in Freedman, ed., ABD, IV:1123-1131, for the systematic parallels with the biblical and other Flood stories.

140-169

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 23; third song – centers on Council and the Anunnaki gods (cf 145-151 ∥155-161).

1.20

R. Smith; irony; bicolon.

1.55

R. Smith; hyperbole; 2^nd & 3^rd lines (cf Y).

1.195

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 17; irony (in eme-sal dialect).

2.133

Gordon SP 17 (f), cited by R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 18.

2.137

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 17; cf var UM 29-15-394.

gods:men ∥man:god

Alster in Abusch History of Religions, Volume 26, p.143-187 (1986)

I,i - III,viii

R. Smith; cf Simoons-Vermeer Numen 21:18-21,28,31-34.

I,i,7-8 (A)

R. Smith; abc:bca; cf Gilgamesh XI,15-16.

I,v,366-367 (A)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 18; abc:cba.

I,viii,385-386 (A)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 18; abc:cba.

II,i,18-19 (B)

R. Smith; abc:acb; = Assyr. Recension (L.A.), iv,46-47 (S).

II,ii,16-19 ∥30-33

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 18.

II,ii,16-19

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 18; abc:dacb:edbc; ∥II,ii,30-33.

II,ii,30-33

R. Smith; ∥II,ii,16-19.

II,iii,4-6

R. Smith; ab:ba; = Neo-Late Babyl. x rev i,13-14; y,11-12; cf Lipin Akkadian Language 155.

II,iv,7-8

R. Smith; abc:cab; = Assyr. Recension (L.A.),iv,57b-58a ∥v,6b-7a (S).

II,v,10-11

R. Smith; abc:bac; ∥II,vi,25-26.

II,vi,25-26

R. Smith; ∥II,v,10-11.

II,vii - III,viii

R. Smith; Flood Story ∥Gen 6 - 9; cf Gilgamesh XI,9-196; see Simoons-Vermeer Numen 21:28.

II,viii,34-35 (B,D)

R. Smith; abc:cdba.

III,iii,30 - iv,22

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 21,29-30; ABA; ∥Gilgamesh XI,113-126; cf Simoons-Vermeer Numen 21:24,26-27.

I-XI

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 26-27; cf Dalley Myths from Mesopotamia 46; climax with Bull of Heaven at center – VI, 151-153; dreams of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, V,i-iv ∥VI,vi,189-92, VII,i,1-16; Prologue and Epilogue at outer flanks, I,i,16-19 ∥XI,303-305.

I,i,16-19 ∥XI,303-305

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 27; abc:bca; cf Gilgamesh XI, 15-16.

I,ii - VIII,ii

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 26; ABCCBA; framed by birth & death of Enkidu.

VII,ii,

R. Smith; abcba; dream, warning, lips, warning, dream.

IX,i,1 - XI,297

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 27; cf Simoons-Vermeer Numen 21:20-21; frame for section (endeavor & failure), Flood Story at center; see W. Shea, Origins, 18/1 (1991), 10-26; I. Kikawada, in Freedman, ed., ABD, IV:1123-1131, for the systematic parallels with the biblical and other Flood stories.

X,i,2 ∥10

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 21; frag Sp 299, etc; inclusion of dual recitation of exploits of Gilgamesh & Enkidu, with bull on the fringe.

XI,1-2

Gordon UT §17.6.

XI,21-196

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 21,28-29; Flood Story – modeled on Atraasis III,i,10 - vi,27 (JBL 91:32 n. 27); ∥Gen 6:13 - 9:17, Lund CNT 61-62; cf Simoons-Vermeer Numen 21:17-34; Fisher CBQ 32:392-403.

XI,11-26

R. Smith; ABA; cf Simoons-Vermeer Numen 21:24,26-27; ∥Atraasis III,iii,30 - iv,22.

obv 1-4

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 21; ABBA or inclusion; Ereshkigal = Irkalla.

obv 19 - rev 58

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 25-26; descent and ascent surrounding predicament and resolution (obv 42 - rev 45 as ABBA).

(rev 38-46)

R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 21; ABA or inclusion in older Ashur version only.

I - XX

Knutson dissertation 137, cited in Welch UF VI:426; R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 20; Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 43; Prologue-Laws-Epilogue; ABA; cf CH.

I,20-37 ∥XIX,6-17

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 52-54 (Prologue ∥Epilogue), citing Steele AJA 52:425-450, and Kramer in ANET 2^nd ed., 159ff.

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 43; Prologue-Laws-Epilogue; ABA; cf. CH.

see Hurowitz, Inu Anum īrum, 25-31,33,37,40,44; especially chapter 2.

i,1 - xlix,17

Buccellati in Abusch, et al., eds., Lingering Over Words 118-119,133; ABCBA; Laws (“verdicts of justice”) enclosed by mythical past ∥future (i,1ff ∥xlviii,59ff), and by administration of justice (i,50 - v,14ff ∥xlvii,9ff); Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 45-61, speaks of “a chiastic chassis” for “the entire” Codex (58), and displays this as ABCDCBA (25-28), as well as 0ABCDEFGGFGEFDBFCFA0 (59-60, for command-fulfillment reversals); The Prologue & Epilogue are tightly knit (46 n. 55, citing Ries Prolog und Epilog 25ff.); MS B is clearly favored (65-66).

obv I - rev XXVIII

Gordon UL 7,132; Gordon Christianity Today 4:132, both cited by R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 20; Shea Origins 5:9-38; Harper CH xi; cf Knutson dissertation 137-138; Welch UF VI:426; Prologue-Laws-Epilogue; ABA; poetry-prose-poetry; Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 60, sees the tripartite arrangement as I,1-49 ∥I,50 - xlvii,8 ∥xlvii,9 - end, with the central section bilaterally symmetrical and based on the command-fulfillment pattern – as is the entire Codex; cf Deut 5 - 28, Job 1 - 47, Eloquent Peasant, and Dispute Over Suicide.

i,1 - 49

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 21,65; ABA of three “interlocked” inclusios, “arranged nearly chiastically.” MS B is superior.

i,1-3 ∥45-49

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 20; inclusio of Anu & Ellil ∥Anu & Ellil.

i,4-5 ∥22-23

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 20; inclusio of heaven & earth ∥heaven & earth.

i,9-10 ∥11-13

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 21; chiastic poetic couplet, following MS B; “poetic couplet marked by internal chiasm.”

i,32-34 ∥43-44

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 20-21; inclusio of “cause to appear in the land” ∥”light up the land.”

i,50 ∥iv,66

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 74-89; inclusio brackets “entire ‘Piety Register’,” while key “terms are recapitulated in reverse order” (a “Coda”) and with paranomasia.

i,50 - ii,47

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 77; “chiastically arranged chain of words.”

i,53 ∥v,13

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 22; ABA, or inclusio “bracketing royal titles.”

ii,48 - iii,35

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 79; “a chiastic chain running through the ‘inner circle’.”

iii,36 ∥iv,7

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 79-80; “initial titles . . . arranged chiastically.”

v,14 - xlviii,58

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 23-28; ABCBA.

v,20-21 ∥xlvii,77-78

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 27-28; chiastic inclusio with paranomasia.

xlvii,40-58

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 25-26,35; abcdcba; Sumer & Akkad at center, surrounded with chiastic mušallimum, illi ∥lamassija, šulmim.

xlvii,59-74

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 25-26,36-37; abccba, with inclusio, and chiastic string (give justice, the land ∥the land, give justice).

xlvii,84 - xlix,17

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 40; chiastic inclusio bracketing both Schlussgebete & Blessings (Šamaš, šar mišarim ∥šar mišarim, Šamaš), both framed by hymnic interludes.

xlvii,84 - xlviii,58

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 33-36,49; Schlussgebete (Concluding Prayer); fully “concentric”; inclusio (Esagila, ina damiqtim ana dar ∥Esagila, umišam, liddamiqu) brackets prayer; climactic verb at center (34).

xlviii,15-16 ∥80-85

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 39; middle of central passage in Blessings.

xlviii,59 - xlix,17

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 38 (n. 48)-39; abba, with inclusio of chiastic graphemes (warkiat UD-mi ∥^dUD . . . lirrik) for the entire Blessings section, along with paranomasia.

17-26 ∥41-45

Hurowitz JCS 36:200-205; Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 54-55,63; chiastic commission ∥fulfillment, with stative sentence at center/pivot.

?? - ??

Hurowitz JCS 36:191-200; Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 58; “chain of words running chiastically through . . . the entire . . . inscription.”

??-39 ∥79-95

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 55; command ∥fulfillment, with small chiasm of Sippar . . . duršu ∥dur Sippar.

32-51,70-88 ∥89-143

Hurowitz Inu Anum īrum 56-57; command,command ∥fulfillment; key words “bracket larger thematic units.”

1 - 52

Welch UF VI:426; R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 20; cf Knutson

dissertation 141,195-196; ABA; cf PRU IV, 17.227:1-53; cf also

Ex 34:10-27, Deut 5 - 28.

1 - 53

Knutson dissertation 126,196-197; Welch UF VI:426 n. 35; R. Smith in

Welch, ed., CIA 20,23-24; abcba; cf PRU IV 17.132:1-52; cf also Ex

34:10-27, Deut 5 - 28.

1-4

Hoskisson; ABA.

(2 lines)

Lipin Akkadian Language 155, cited by R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 18;

abba; break the doors ∥the bars crush.

(2 lines)

Lipin Akkadian Language 155, cited by R. Smith in Welch, ed., CIA 18;

abba; my heart angry ∥inflamed my liver.

ABA

Shea Origins 5:9-38; prose-poetic ritual-prose.

ABA

Shea Origins 5:9-38; prose-poetic ritual-prose.