Chiastic structures are one of the most common forms of Hebrew Poetry. In fact, a chiasm is really a subset of a parallelism, which is what Hebrew poetry is primarily based on(English poetry, by contrast, is primarily based on meter).
The same person to first identify parallelism as a distinguishing feature of Hebrew poetry was Robert Lowth. Perhaps most interestingly, Lowth's works on English grammar are also responsible for a lot of the supposed rules in English that we dont apply [0](e.g. never end a sentence with a preposition, unless you have to)
The same person to first identify parallelism as a distinguishing feature of Hebrew poetry was Robert Lowth. Perhaps most interestingly, Lowth's works on English grammar are also responsible for a lot of the supposed rules in English that we dont apply [0](e.g. never end a sentence with a preposition, unless you have to)
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