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Stephen: Very nice to see all your hard work on Jarom come to fruition.
In reflecting on the name Jarom in verse 1, and Joram in verse 14, it may be possible that Jarom did a deliberate reversal of his name in the inclusio, as a sign of his creation of a chiasm — and perhaps in the spirit of what we call Seidel’s Law.