The Pervasive Compositional Habit in Ancient Narrative Literature

The practice of framing a section of narrative by placing at the end something that reminds one of the beginning is a pervasive compositional habit in ancient narrative literature and many variations of the form can be found. There are prominent examples in home resilient and odyssey the most widely read and studied literary works of the ancient world where the repetition of names of Isis to mark the beginning and end of the street units goes on from there. And so that's I mean if a guy like Bockham is gonna and he's pulling off alien stuff and and his stuff so that's good enough for me. Yeah this is Jesus and the eyewitnesses the gospels as eyewitness testimony. This is starts on page 5