Mike Madsen delivers his presentation on the presence and prevalence of chiasmus and parallelism in the Book of Mormon, giving and explaining examples from the Old Testament as well. This presentation was originally published as a video on the Gospel Talktrine YouTube channel. Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FahcvsYHVKE or at http://www.gospeltalktrine.com/chiasmus-in-the-book-of-mormon-special-episode-s00e09.

Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon - S00E09

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Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon - S00E09

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