Hyperbaton and Greek Literary Style in Hebrews

"Hyperbaton," the separation of words that are semantically and syntactically interconnected, is used in the epistle to the Hebrews nearly sixty times. Classicist Daniel Markovic has shown that various kinds of hyperbaton were used by Greek literary authors to indicate the boundaries of their basic informational unit, the colon , and sometimes of larger units of discourse like the period . This essay confirms Markovic's conclusions by studying the instances of hyperbaton in Hebrews which the author used to frame colons while also adding some secondary reasons for its use throughout the composition.