Literary Structure Posts

One of the most common ways of structuring a narrative for the author of Genesis was to use a chiastic structure.  We saw this earlier in the story of the flood. As a reminder, in a chiastic structure, the author creates parallel points  arranged in…

Different types of literature demand different structures. We write novels differently than blog posts, and short stories differently from e-mail messages. The literary culture of the Bible was no different, except that the literary forms come from …

The opening overture to the book of Genesis (1:1-2:3) is presented in a parallel structure. The vertical relationships point to the two great creative acts of God, forming and filling. The horizontal relationships represent three areas of ac…