Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Dead Sea Scroll chiasm

Although chiasmania is easy to catch, I do enjoy trainspotting chiasm--especially in the Bible,but also in  literature like the U2 canon ( "the sick stay healthy, and the sick stay poor')..

But I didn't realize it had been utilized visually in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Photo of an actual scroll here>
Not sure of the chiasm is just in the visual arrangement , or is literary (as in reverse parallelism of words/themes) as well  out the text (can't make out the text in photo).
Surprisingly, not much online about it except this.
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  1. Kevin Phillips6:44 PM, April 17, 2012

    This is very interesting. I'd love to learn more. Learning more, my interest grows. :-)

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  2. R. Tiferet9:32 PM, October 22, 2014

    Hi. This picture is upside down because the text is upside down!

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Hey, thanks for engaging the conversation!

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