| Literary Device |
Torah |
Non Torah |
Poetry+ Wisdom |
Major Prophets |
Minor Prophets |
Synoptic Gospels |
Johannine Books |
Paul’s Epistles |
Other Writings |
Mean: All Genres |
Total Devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Structures: | |||||||||||
| Chiasm | 30% | 33% | 38% | 31% | 25% | 33% | 40% | 43% | 38% | 34% | 419 |
| Chiasm (Imperfect) | 13% | 19% | 9% | 13% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 16% | 14% | 166 |
| Composite | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 4% | 1% | 9 |
| Immediate Repetition | 5% | 6% | 13% | 13% | 15% | 8% | 6% | 15% | 7% | 9% | 115 |
| List | 10% | 5% | 6% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 50 |
| Parallel Symmetry | 25% | 22% | 24% | 24% | 27% | 34% | 18% | 24% | 20% | 25% | 301 |
| Parallel Symmetry (Imperfect) | 17% | 15% | 8% | 15% | 8% | 13% | 13% | 7% | 14% | 13% | 155 |
| ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ||
| Subtotal | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 1215 |
| Substructures: | |||||||||||
| Chiasm Substructure | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.49 | 0.83 | 0.58 | 0.42 | 0.85 | 0.64 | 0.69 | 0.70 | 847 |
| Immediate Repetition Substructure | 0.51 | 0.37 | 0.45 | 0.59 | 0.42 | 0.30 | 0.31 | 0.49 | 0.25 | 0.41 | 504 |
| List Substructure | 0.75 | 0.43 | 0.73 | 0.52 | 0.58 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.65 | 0.32 | 0.48 | 587 |
| Parallel Symmetry Substructure | 0.62 | 0.58 | 0.28 | 0.62 | 0.47 | 0.37 | 0.48 | 0.35 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 572 |
| Literary units analyzed | 167 | 199 | 156 | 143 | 60 | 199 | 80 | 126 | 85 | ||
| Percent analyzed of the genre | 66% | 70% | 69% | 61% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 77% | |
Updated on 8/27/2024