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Contains correspondence regarding John Welch's research on chiasmus. Includes letters, faxes, and emails from scholars, readers, class members, and publishers to and from Welch. Dated 1967-2011.

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Contains John W. Welch's incoming correspondence. In this collection of correspondence, it contains emails and letters on chiasms both in scripture and in antiquity, outlines for scriptural works such as the Psalms, bibliographies, conference handouts, and additional references to chiasms. Materials dated 1967-2011.

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Contains documentation on John W. Welsh's miscellaneous chiasmus studies. Included in these documents are notes from other organizations (including universities and book dealers) about the usage of chiasms, articles published by organizations such as FARMS, and various notes taken by Robert F. Smith pertaining to topics surrounding the scriptures and their usage of chiasms. Materials dated 1809-2010.

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Contains documentation on John W. Welch's other chiasmus studies. Included in these documents are the usages of chiasms in architecture, Mormon culture, WordPerfect documents, and Hamlet. It also includes such documents arguing against chiasms and the potential fallacies of the literary tool. Materials dated 1834-2010.

Scope and Contents Contains a collection of John W. Welch's outgoing correspondence. Included in this collections are emails and letters pertaining to the creation of the Scripture Language program at BYU, chiastic structures found in recent talks including Dallin H. Oaks' 1993 General Conference talk, the potential usage of chiasms as a means to help the missionary effort throughout the world, chiastic structures in Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal works, chiastic structures within the Book of Mormon, the role...

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Contains documentation on John W. Welch's Babylonian chiasmus studies. Included in these documents are examples of chiasms and patterns in ancient Babylonian texts including Hammurabi's Code and flood stories as well as a paper documenting how many Biblical laws were based off of the laws found in Hammurabi's Code. Materials dated 1967-2009.

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Contains various research materials that John Welch used for his study of Chiasmus, including handouts from scholars, articles related to chiasmus in other literature, copies of checks to fund research, and other documents. Dated 1787-2011.

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Contains documentation on John W. Welch's Classical Philology chiasmus studies. Included in this documentation are notes on chiasmus quotes and language criticism of the Book of Mormon, and notes on the reasons for chiasmus. The date of production of these materials is not identified.

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Contains documentation on John W. Welch's Egyptian chiasmus studies. Included in these documents are Egyptian literature from both the Ancient and Classical era with chiasms, and notes from Egyptian artifacts/artwork. Materials dated 1932-1985.

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Contains documentation on John W. Welch's studies in Greek chiasmus studies. Included in this documentation are comparisons of chiasmus-use in the Hebrew and Greek language, notes on ancient Greek works, and examples of chiasmus-use in classic Greek and Latin literature. Materials dated 1970-2003.