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Pattern Analysis is a consistent methodology to analyze literary structures and rhetoric of pericopes throughout the Bible. It is an innovative approach that utilizes a variety of literary devices, not just chiasms – a modification of Walsh’s Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative methodology. Included is a demarcation model (placement of markers), a structural model (organization of parallel elements), and a rhetorical model (recognition of persuasive and emphatic messages). The structural and rhetorical devices comprising these models appear consistently in every genre. These findings are based on roughly 20,000 of the 30,000 verses in the Bible. Every verse of those 20,000 verses fits this approach. At least 25% of every book has been sampled; the New Testament and Minor Prophets have been completed. Rigorous software is available in prototype form so students may someday analyze their own structures, document their understanding of the rhetoric, and view their analyses on dynamic web pages. 

The manuscript, Pattern Analysis Methodology, is available for review at  https://emphasisinbible.com/paf/.

About Tom Clarke:  He was a designer and developer of computer software for most of his professional career. That background offers a valuable perspective in this analysis of patterns.