What do sandwiches, pizza and Biblical literature all have in common? Not much, but Erica makes some comical connections as word pictures in this study of Ruth 1:15-22 (NASB). We unpack the literary brilliance of chiasm, and learn how to identify it, how it works, and how it unpacks a text in fresh ways for the modern reader.
SHOW NOTES: Chiastic structure for Ruth's loyalty oath (1:16-17; pattern A-B-C-D-D'-C'-B'-A')
1 Do not plead with me to leave you or to turn back from following you;
2 for where you go, I will go,
3 and where you sleep, I will sleep.
4 Your people shall be my people,
6 Where you die, I will die,
7 and there I will be buried.
8 May the Lord do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates me from you.”
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Podcast instrumental music by Scott Holmes and Joseph McDade.