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The Hebrew use of chiasms is what first convinced me that a lot of hyperliteralist interpretations of the Torah were just ignorant. A person cannot intentional
by shureluck 5y ago
The Hebrew use of chiasms is what first convinced me that a lot of hyperliteralist interpretations of the Torah were just ignorant.
A person cannot intentionally convert a story into a poetic structure without also distorting its literalness.
And the contemporary readers of the time would have known this as well.