Use in New Testament
Based on the theories of David Dorsey, while considering the lack of punctuation and spaces in the earliest textual sources of the New Testament, David Buckwalter proposes that the chiastic structure of the New Testament is a form of punctuation keyed on the words used in the original Greek texts. In the original Greek, these structures would have been clear to its contemporary audience, however they are not so apparent in modern translations. Like Dorsey's analyis with the Hebrew Bible, Buckwalter also believes that the New testament chiastic structure serves as a form of interpretive control.
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