A chiasm is a literary structure where the words of the first section of a passage are repeated in inverted order in the second. Typically whatever is in the center is what is being emphasized. In Genesis 1:26–28 the emphasis is on the fact that man has been created in the image of God (Gen 1:27).
The Chiasm of Genesis 1:26-28
About the Author: Mike Rusten
Mike Rusten grew up in Plymouth, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. God drew him to himself at a Billy Graham crusade when Mike was a junior high boy, and life was never to be the same. He graduated from Princeton University where he was president of the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship. Read More ...
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