Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon?

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  • Chiastic Illustration
    Chiasmus, the Book of Mormon, and the Bible: An Introduction

    Chiasmus is one of the most frequently cited evidences for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon. This article provides an introduction to chiasmus, explaining what it is and why Mormons think it is evidence for the Book of Mormon, giving examples from the Bible, and discussing whether the Book of Mormon contains clear instances of chiasmus.

  • John W. Welch
    Mosiah 3:18-19—Ancient Chiasmus or Modern Composition?

    Why this often-cited example of an Israelite chiasmus in the Book of Mormon is really a modern text.

  • Chiasmus in Antiquity
    Chiasmus, Theology, and the New Testament in Mosiah 5:10-12

    The very first example of chiasmus discovered in the Book of Mormon isn’t a chiasmus at all.

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    Alma 36: Ancient or Modern?
  • Alma 36: Ancient Masterpiece Chiasmus or Modern Revivalist Testimony?

    Mormons commonly cite Alma 36 as the supreme example of a long, complex chiasmus in the Book of Mormon. The first article here is a short, relatively non-technical response to this claim. The second article is a long, technical response with full documentation.

  • Poetic Parallelisms
    Chiasmus within Chiasmus in 3 Nephi 17:5-10?

    Some scholars have claimed not only that 3 Nephi 17:5-10 is a chiasmus, but that it contains one or two smaller chiasmus structures within the larger one. This article explains why there is no chiasmus in the passage at all.

  • Color-coded page 36 from Book of Alma
    Repetition and Chiasmus in Alma 36: An Inductive Approach

    Is Alma 36 a chiasmus? This article proposes a simple, easy to apply approach to settling the matter.

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  • Chiasmus: A Short Bibliography

    A list of publications on chiasmus, both in and out of the Book of Mormon.

  • Aquarian Gospel
    Chiasmus, the Book of Mormon, and the Aquarian Gospel

    The third chapter of the 1907 book The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, a modern apocryphal gospel, looks like a lengthy chiasmus. It has weaknesses or flaws as a chiasmus, but the alleged examples of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon are far worse.