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Chiastic structure, or chiastic pattern, is a literary technique in narrative motifs and other textual passages. An example of chiastic structure would be two ideas, A and B, together with variants A' and B', being presented as A,B,B',A'. Chiastic structures that involve more components are sometimes called "ring structures" or "ring compositions".
Song of Songs 1 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 1) is the first chapter of the "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon", a book of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This book is one of the Five Megillot , a group of short books, together with Ruth , Lamentations , Ecclesiastes and Esther , within the Ketuvim , the ...
Four of them (Psalms 122, 124, 131, and 133) are linked in their ascriptions to David, and one to Solomon. Three of them (Psalms 131, 133, and 134) have only three verses. [1] The longest is Psalm 132 (18 verses). A chiastic structure is seen by many in these Psalms with Psalm 127 a Psalm of Solomon as center.
External parallelism can also "accumulate" in a chiastic or "ring" structure that may include many verses. For example, Psalm 1 utilizes synonymous, synthetic, and emblematic parallelism before "turning" antithetically back to emblematic, synthetic, and then synonymous parallels.
The first and last (29th) verses of Psalm 118, "הודו לה' כי-טוב כי לעולם חסדו", form an inclusio. Another, more disputed, example may be found in the Book of Ruth , where one finds a certain resemblance, if somewhat chiastic , between 1:1 and 1:22: in the former, Elimelekh leaves Bethlehem in favor of Moab , and in the ...
Some see the Law and the work of the Messiah set side by side in Psalms 1 and 2, 18 and 19, 118 and 119. They see the law and the Messiah opening the book of Psalms. [21] [22] Book 1 of the Psalms begins and ends with 'the blessed man': the opening in Psalms 1–2 [23] and the closing in Psalms 40–41. [24]
Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893 The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
Beatus Vir (Gorecki), Opus 38, subtitled Psalm for baritone, large mixed chorus and grand orchestra, is a setting of texts from various psalms by Henryk Górecki from 1979, commissioned by Pope John Paul II. [22] Neither Psalm 1 nor 112 are used, and the title comes from part of Psalm 33.