Hebrews Chiasm

I recently ran across this nicely presented chiasm for Hebrews 12:1-2 (page 207 of David Alan Black’s Learn To Read New Testament Greek):

A [H]aving SEATED around us such a great cloud of witnesses

>>B SETTING ASIDE every weight and clinging sin

>>>>C with PATIENT ENDURANCE

>>>>>>D  let us run the race THAT IS SET BEFORE US

>>>>>>>>E  fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith

>>>>>>D’  who for the joy THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM

>>>>C’  PATIENTLY ENDURED the cross

>>B’  SCORNING the shame

A’ and HAS TAKEN HIS SEAT at the right hand of the throne of God

It is not surprising, by the way, to find a chiasm — which is characteristic of ancient Jewish literature — in Hebrews.  That book is, of course, likely written by a Jew for Jews, and — to quote another primer (D.H. Hudson, New Testament Greek, in a passage discussing the variation in the Greek across different New Testament books) — “contains the most beautiful language in the New Testament.”