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==Question: Does chiasmus exist in Joseph Smith's writings?==
===Some researchers have detected a hypothetical "chiastic" structure in one of Joseph's letters to Emma===

Jared Demke and Scott Vanatter detected a hypothetical "chiastic" structure in one of Joseph's letters to Emma, dated 4 November 1838.<ref>Jared R. Demke and Scott L. Vanatter, ''Davidic Chiasmus & Parallelisms''.  The letter can be found in {{PWJS1|start=41}}</ref>  Edwards and Edwards replied that they had found 

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a 68% chance that the chiastic structure in this letter could have appeared randomly. This value of L [chance of chiasmus arising intentionally, rather than by chance] is typical of non-chiastic text and contrasts sharply with values for the best chiasms in the Book of Mormon and the Bible, which are as low as L = 0.000000008 ± 0.000000004 (for the ten-element chiastic structure of Alma 36)...Preliminary inspection of chiastic structure in other letters and writings by Joseph Smith indicates that these may also be indefensible statistically.<ref>{{DialogueP|author=Boyd F. Edwards and W. Farrell Edwards|article=[http://www.dialoguejournal.com/excerpts/e4.pdf Does Joseph's Letter to Emma of 4 November 1838 Show that He Knew about Chiasmus?]|num=4|date=26 August 2006}}</ref>
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