It is found as a result of the theocentric method research that in the level of the thematic content of pericopes, the literary structure of Exo 1-18 is a concentric one; thus, it has a feature typical for Hebrew literary compositions.
It turns out that such a concentric structure is hidden deeper – in the lexical level, namely:
if in each of the six pericopes separately, one examines the number of Hebrew words occurring in one of the two groups chosen in the comprehensive research:
the following results are obtained [1]:
words in past tenses *@v?{?pw}* | words in future tenses *@v?{?ivq}* | words in past tenses in relation to sum of two groups of tenses (in %) | words in future tenses in relation to sum of two groups of tenses (in %) | sum | |
I | 264 | 164 | 62 % | 38 % | 100 % |
II | 253 | 200 | 56 % | 44 % | 100 % |
III | 60 | 110 | 35 % | 65 % | 100 % |
IV | 71 | 36 | 66 % | 34 % | 100 % |
V | 33 | 26 | 56 % | 44 % | 100 % |
VI | 159 | 98 | 62 % | 38 % | 100 % |
These relations can also be presented in the bar graph form – it is shown in the next step of this presentation.