which chapters in the book of daniel are in the form of a chiasm?

And many of them “match” sections of the text that do not obviously balance (though this does not apply to the example offered by Rendsburg and Bin-Nun).īut I have a slight correction to offer about something in Bin-Nun’s post, a correction that perhaps strengthens the likelihood that the chiasm in the Abraham story was deliberately intended to convey meaning. I am quite dubious that any but an obsessive reader (of our scholarly kind) could possibly notice such chiasms. (Bin-Nun, by the way, is one of the featured characters in Yossi Klein Halevi’s Like Dreamers, another incentive for anyone who has not yet read that remarkable book to get your hands on it.)Ī number of respected scholars have pointed to chiasms in biblical prose texts extending over multiple chapters. I’ve been podcasting here and neglecting to write, so that’s not entirely a bad thing.

Instead, I’ll have to write a post about it. I’d have posted my reaction to Yoel Bin-Nun’s column last week about chiasm in the story of Abraham, responding to a piece by Gary Rendsburg. It’s too bad doesn’t have a Letters column - or a wiki.

Which chapters in the book of daniel are in the form of a chiasm?