This week I want to return to a delightful rhetorical and grammatical device, the chiasmus. What is it, how do you pronounce it, and what is it good for? These are the questions we will deal this week ...

People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power. - Bill Clinton, Aug. 27, 2008 Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you ...

Practically everyone in the world knows that line, Forsyth said. “Indeed there was a recent poll in which that was voted the greatest ever one-liner in movie history.” Which, if you think about it, is ...

The white floating box opposite to the performance hall is a saloon which was perceived as box seats overlooking the stage on the side. At the same time, people in saloon are also being seen upon ...

The verbal divine response to a case of blasphemy/cursing of God is presented as a lengthy chiasmus in Lev 24,13-23. One aspect of this that has gone unnoticed is how the structure suggests that ...

“But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first” (Mark 10:31). “So the last will be first, and the first will be last” (Matt. 20:16).“Indeed, some are last who will be first, and some ...