My colleague, Dr. Danny Carroll Rodas, Blanchard Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School, draws upon his bi-lingual upbringing (Spanish and English) to reflect upon how language works in a given culture. When it comes to biblical Hebrew, Dr. Carroll Rodas highlights three structures within Hebrew discourse: chiasm, emphasis, and acrostics. 
Cut and past the following URL:
http://exegeticallyspeaking.libsyn.com/how-language-works
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