This obligation is learned from the chiastic structure itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Purity (Niddah).] Reference

Lepers rather than some divine revelation or act formed the chiastic center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference

And it can be part of larger units, within which chiastic structure functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon’s Song of Love] Reference

Her choice seems to indicate a basic misunderstanding of the chiastic parallels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference

Every now and then a single observation contains two separate chiastic reversals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: April 13, 2003 - April 19, 2003 Archives] Reference

Watching the NFL playoffs this weekend, I couldn't help but conclude that the NFL of the last 8 years or so has featured a series of chiastic patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Av Sinensky: The Football Gods Are Great] Reference

Correct chiastic comparison would have allowed her to see that the normal male is privileged when compared to the “oozers” in the details of the purity system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference

Her analysis of the chiastic structure in Leviticus 15 compares niddah (= normal female) to zav (= abnormal male) rather than to the man who ejaculates (= normal male).    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.] Reference

In either case, it could be the beginning of a short chiastic structure: morning star/dawn; moon; sun; stars if “bannered hosts” in this context refers to the hosts of heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon’s Song of Love] Reference

We have in this passage an instance of the chiastic order, in which variety and emphasis are gained by reversing the position of the words in the second of two similar expressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference

From a literary perspective, the book is an artistic masterpiece, constructed in two parts (1: 1 – 7: 32, 8: 1 – 16: 25), with each internally ordered by a threefold chiastic pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith: Apocrypha.] Reference

It is entitled "Prologue as Legitimation" and pays particular attention to the significance of relating the parallel sections of the prologue when it is viewed as having a chiastic structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

As someone who has intensely followed sports for all of my life, I am convinced that there is often some greater force at work that transcends the people involved, and these chiastic patterns are evidence of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Av Sinensky: The Football Gods Are Great] Reference

The object meqallelkha is not placed first so much for emphasis as to make possible a chiastic arrangement of clauses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

In treating these relics (in the chiastic order of Nephite, Jaredite, Nephite again), there is a steady theme of gaining eternal life through revealed guidance and grace from the Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mormanity - A Mormon Blog (But Not Just for Mormons)] Reference

The entry of people and animals into the ark, followed by the rise of the Flood waters, then their fall, then the exit of people and animals, perhaps suggested a chiastic structure to the original author or authors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The chiastic structure explains the repetition of all these figures, whereas the radical critics, with their low view of the inspiration of Scripture, thought the repetition implied different authors or redactors putting something together from diverse and disagreeing accounts from long before their time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Likewise, Marcel's understanding of otherness ” illustrated by his image of “constellations,” conglomerations of meaningfully connected but non-totalizable beings ” is an explicit challenge to philosophers of absolute otherness including Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques D.rrida, and John D. Caputo, and a valuable resource for philosophers with a chiastic understanding of otherness, including Ricoeur and Richard Kearney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel (-Honoré) Marcel] Reference

8 years or so has featured a series of chiastic patterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

155 The pattern of 8.6 seems to be a short chiastic one: abb’a’, linking “heart” and “fervent love” and then linking “arm” and “strong as death.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solomon’s Song of Love] Reference

Chiasm, chiastic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference