Suggestions to Authors from the Editors
Offers contributors a compact template for building a persuasive scholarly essay, picturing it as a diamond that opens with a thesis and a preview of the argument, widens into developmental paragraphs each anchored by a claim to be proved and joined by deliberate transitions, and narrows again to a conclusion that summarizes, concedes further study, or draws a homiletic point.
The editors treat organization as a tool of persuasion rather than mere tidiness. Their model asks writers to state the governing idea up front, along with a signal of the route the essay will take, so readers know what is being claimed and how it will be shown. Each middle paragraph should carry its own arguable sentence, which then governs the choice of biblical citation, paraphrase, and comment inside it. Linking words and repeated phrases hold the sections together, and the closing may summarize, invite further inquiry, or end on a homiletic note.
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Editors. "Suggestions to Authors from the Editors." Jewish Bible Quarterly 36, no. 4 (October – December 2008): 280.
Editors. "Suggestions to Authors from the Editors." Jewish Bible Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, 2008, pp. 280.