Merneptah. Parallelism creates analogies by combining lines into sets or colons of two or three. The lines mirror one another by comparison or contrast. Chiasm is a technique where the opening lines of a poem mirror its closing just as the top shape of the Greek letter chi [Greek: Χ] mirrors its base shape. The Hymn of Merneptah contains the only mention of Israel in New Kingdom inscriptions (1550–1070 BCE). The hymn uses the hieroglyphs of a throw-stick [Egyptian: outsider] with a seated man and