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The Literary Structure of the Old Testament: A Commentary on Genesis–Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

In modern writing, a variety of written markers—italics, bold type, punctuation, parentheses, and so forth—are used to indicate emphasis and clarify meaning. The authors of the Old Testament could not rely on such devices since their writings were originally composed for oral presentation. They instead used literary structure to highlight certain ideas and to convey meaning and emphasis...

not only the story’s turning point, but also its climax (the turning point and climax of a story frequently occur together); the rest of the story is denouement. Likewise, in most of the symmetrically structured stories in the Book of Judges, the central unit features the climax as well as the turning point. The placement of the climax at the center of a story may seem a bit odd to modern readers, who are accustomed to finding the climax near the story’s end. 3. Centerpiece: in nonarrative compositions
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