Vorkosigan

The .jpg version has more comments in it. I'll be taking the .html version down soon.

Vorkosigan

Peter Kirby

Hmmph. I prefer the HTML version. Lighter on the load time.

best,
Peter Kirby

Celsus

Vork, could you convert the jpg version to PDF, or else divide it into smaller sections (e.g., page 1, 2, 3, etc.)?

Joel

Vorkosigan

I'll keep both and update HTML version, then.

spin

With all those chiasms did he go to a doctor?

rationalOne

What exactly is "Chiastic Structure" of a text? Is it just a style of writing?

spin

You can see it is a literary structure in which various subjects are dealt with each in two parts, but in the order LIFO, last in first out. Look at the first three verses of Ps 48.

1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

A' God & city of God
B' holy mountain
B" mount Zion
A" city of the great king, God...

You can have many layers, each answered in this sort of order:

A' B' C' D' E' E" D" C" B" A".


spin

Vorkosigan

yes, will do the latter as have no ADOBE. But thanks, didn't even think of .PDF.

Michael

Dominus Paradoxum

Uh, that second link doesn't have the complete text of mark. It ends here:

"A And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen. "

What happened to the young man and the women fleeing in terror?

The one you posted on Elba has the same problem.

Vorkosigan

The note there should say that no chiasm can be constructed for the end, because there is no A bracket to match the last A there. The chiastic structure I have constructed/found/invented indicates that the last part of the gospel must have gone past that verse where the women cower in fear.