When approaching an OT text, Dorsey explains that literary structure conveys meaning in three primary ways: It is fascinating to see the cognitive link between the patterning development testing that the nurse was doing with my young son and the consistent use of these very same patterns as foundational “literary packaging” 6designed to preserve and pass on history and instruction, in this instance, to Israel throughout the OT era. 4 Dorsey has provided extensive, sensible patterning examples (most as chiasms) of this, supplying with commentary the overall pattern for each book, the patterns for each of their sub-points, and sometimes those of the third level as well. His argument is quiet but persistent and compelling that the OT text exhibits a conscious surface structure designed to convey meaning. 3After years of research and careful analysis of the Hebrew, his work is a compendium of the fruits of his labors in each Old Testament book. Dorsey has plausibly demonstrated that such patterning techniques (parallelism, symmetry/chiasm) comprise a common writing format used in each book of the OT to convey meaning and even to grace simultaneously linear chronological accounts. In a landmark study on Hebrew literary structure in the Old Testament, 2David A. Such patterning ability was considered an important marker of cognitive development. In time this progressed to short sequences and then longer ones, where she might line up a row of blocks in the order of red to blue to green to yellow and see if he could follow the pattern and create on his own the same arrangement. At first, she would randomly pick out any colored block, say a blue block, and see if he could associate color and pick out the same colored block. As our son grew a little older, she began to bring colored toy blocks for him to play with. Under the National Healthcare System that was provided, we were periodically visited at home by a district nurse. Ĭ 10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole.At the time I was doing my post-graduate work in New Testament studies at Kings College at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, my wife gave birth to our second child, a son. ġ3 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. ġ1 And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven ġ2 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him,Ī 8 And the centurion answered and said, he marvelled at him, and turned and said unto a them c the multitude that followed him, a Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. Ī 7 And he saith to him, I will come and heal him.Ĭ 6 And Jesus went with them. Ĭ 4 And they, when they came to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying, He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him ĥ for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue. a beseeching him,Ħ and saying, Lord, my servant lieth in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Ī 5 And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion ,Ĭ 2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and at the point of death.ģ And when he heard concerning Jesus, he sent unto him elders of the Jews asking him that he would come and save his servant. C 1 After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, a 1 And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
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