William H. Shea . The thesis of this essay is that the literary form of a given portion of inspired Scripture was designed to help explain its mesage. So it is affirmed that “form complements function.” Leviticus is a well-organized piece of Mosaic instruction. The evidence presented in this essay suggests that the entire book has been written in a literary configuration known as a chiasmus. A chiasmus (or chiasm, as
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