Session 6 - Fill Ins

The Reversal of Destiny also called the Reversal of Fortune

1. The beauty of the book's construction.

work to see the wonder?

The first is called "chiastic structure."

Chiastic structure is inverted parellalism.

it is a reversal of structure to emphasize an overarching point

*The "chi" that begins the word chiastic is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet.

written like this: X. The letter itself represents the crisscross literary structure of a chiasm.

repeated occurrences of feasts of banquets

2. The beauty of the book's instruction.

Esther's best theology is in its subtlety.

literary device called "peripety."

Peripety: a sudden turn of events that reverses the expected or intended outcome

It's tough being a woman who feels responsible for the "how"

sequence of events into a story worth telling