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Butler\u2019s Digital Commons<\/a> site has added a few more of my older publications, including a piece I published in Irish Biblical Studies<\/em> while still a graduate student. It is entitled \u201cPrologue as Legitimation<\/a>\u201d and pays particular attention to the significance of relating the parallel sections of the prologue when it is viewed as having a chiastic structure.<\/p>\n

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Butler\u2019s Digital Commons site has added a few more of my older publications, including a piece I published in Irish Biblical Studies while still a graduate student. 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