Alma 36-38 | Book of Mormon Insights: Revisited

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

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Join Taylor and Tyler in this re-released series from the Book of Mormon Study from 4 years ago (in 2020). Finding Answers to Gospel Questions: https://rb.gy/2nk6ik Scripture Central Resource Guide for Come Follow Me: https://bookofmormoncentral.org/come-follow-me/new-testament-2023 This program is intended to be used as supplementary material to the Come, Follow Me Program by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ____________________ Book of Mormon Insights is a Scripture Central Production. Hosts: Taylor Halverson and Tyler Griffin. Guest Starring: John W. Welch Executive Producer: Benjamin Tyler Griffin. Associate Producer and Video Editor: CharLee Lisonbee Special thanks to Taylor Halverson and Tyler Griffin for volunteering countless hours for this series. Additional thanks to John W. Welch for helping with this episode. Very special thanks to Kiplin Griffin for content editing and review. Thanks to the generous donors of Scripture Central. Nearer My God to Thee arranged and orchestrated by Benjamin Griffin and can be accessed on all major music streaming platforms or the official video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzusb9FNIe4 ____________________ *Download the Gospel Learning app to begin learning through paths created specifically for you! Explore thousands of Gospel topics with the BEST videos available at your fingertips. *Apple App store download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gospel-learning/id1621522439 *Google Play Store download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gospellearning.mobile&pli=1 *The Gospel Learning website: https://gospellearning.org/ *Access the learning tracks online: https://gospellearning.org/learning _____________________ *Download our free scripture study tool: https://www.scriptureplus.org/ *Sign up for our weekly emails to receive notifications and more Come, Follow Me resources: https://forms.aweber.com/form/58/2127539758.htm _____________________ *Check out our “Seeking Jesus” course taught by John Hilton III, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDeilIzGYu4&list=PLhfh21X9suLdrz8WcjuDhusIEEd0Knp9v _____________________ *Check out this amazing map resource for the bible: https://scriptures.byu.edu/mapscrip/ _____________________ *This channel may make use of copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. *This Channel may also make use of artwork, voices, video, and effects that are generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence). We do our best to disclose when necessary our use of AI, but know that we make regular usage of AI materials in our content. We do not use AI to deceive or mislead. #ScriptureCentral #ComeFollowMe #ChurchOfJesusChristOfLatterdaySaints

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0:00.0	I'm Taylor and I'm Tyler. Today, Alma 36 to 38. And we brought our friend on Jack Welch,
0:06.7	the discoverer of a beautiful literary pattern in the book of Mormon called Chiasmus. And we're
0:12.1	delighted today to have him talk about that discovery and why it matters.
0:17.1	Many people in the world are familiar with the term chiasmus, but there are many of our audience
0:23.8	who maybe have never even seen this word or have any idea what it means.
0:28.6	What would you – how would you describe that?
0:30.6	Well, join the crowd.
0:33.8	It is a term that wasn't very widely known and still isn't in many circles, but biblical scholars
0:41.7	and people who work a lot in ancient literature are familiar with this because it's a kind
0:47.4	of rhetorical way of saying things that is made necessary because of some of the aspects
0:53.8	of their writing. For example, they had no
0:56.0	paragraphs. They had no periods or commas. They don't use the ways that we do to signal to readers
1:02.5	when one idea is beginning and ending and the next idea beginning and ending. So they use parallelism
1:09.8	and this kind of chasm to create a unit structure
1:13.3	so that you can tell when you've started something, you go through a list of items and then go
1:17.6	through that list in the opposite order. And when you get to the end, you know you've finished.
1:22.2	And it was widely used not only in written texts, but the written texts are based on oral tradition.
1:30.3	And the use of this kind of organizational way of thinking is especially helpful in oral literature.
1:37.3	And most of the ancient world communicated verbally. And so this kind of style is not particularly comfortable to us, but when
1:47.8	we see it, it becomes really clear. Beautiful. So where did we even get the name? The word kiosmus
1:54.9	in Greek means a criss-crossing. It can also mean coming to a crux, a crossroads. And chiasmus will often be used to
2:04.1	help emphasize in a literary way a turning point where someone in their life has come to a crossing.
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