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1. Investigating Structure 53
Theoretical Considerations
The Structure of 'Isaiah 67'
Below is a chapter consisting of verses from the book of Isaiah. It was
formed by picking numbers from a hat. The chapter was selected by
choosing from numbers 1 to 66; the verse was selected from numbers
1 to 37. Where the number drawn from the hat exceeded the number
of verses in a particular chapter, the latter number was subtracted
from the former (more than once, if necessary) so that an existing
reference was obtained. There may well be objections to this procedure
from the point of view that it is not a 'purely random' number.
From our point of view this is not significant: we simply need to know
that the chapter has not been put together with any consistent principle
of arrangement.
The chapter formed in this way was then examined to see if the sort
of criteria used to establish structure in current studies could be used
to argue for some sort of order in a literary unit that we know has no
planned structure.
The following 'chapter' was obtained:
1 = 13.4 2 = 53.9 3 = 58.3 4 = 37.3 5 = 18.3
6 = 28.5 7 = 29.14 8 = 52.9 9 = 39.8 10 = 29.2
11 = 1.3 12 = 28.13 13 = 15.6 14 = 52.11 15 = 12.5
16 = 66.16 17 = 6.4 18 = 64.4 19 = 17.14 20 = 4.1
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