(elocutio).22 Three samples from contemporary biblical scholars illustrate the application of this understanding.23 While a student of Muilenburg, Jack Lundbom wrote a dissertation on rhetoric in Jeremiah.24 Pursuing the two tasks of defining limits and delineating structures, he proposed that inclusio and chiasmus are controlling figures in the book. They develop the argumentation. Inclusio signifies deliberate continuity between the beginning and the end of a unit. It occurs