The Semitic rhetoric in the Koran and a Pharaonic papyrus

Besides the Greco-Latin classic rhetoric, there are other rhetorics, as the Semitic rhetoric, rediscovered at first in the study of the Bible, but the presence of which is also noticed in the Koran, and in other isolated texts of the antique Middle East. According to this rhetoric, texts are built on the basis of a complex set of symmetries, at various textual levels. The "rhetorical analysis" is the technique which allows bringing to light the composition of texts according to this rhetoric. It establishes the coherence of texts which, at first sight, seems muddled. It is also the way towards a faithful interpretation of the text. Three brief texts are analyzed, two chapters (Suras) of the Koran and a Pharaonic magic text, giving evidence of the extension of this rhetoric, in space and time. It is suggested that it represents the writing techniques of the scribes of the antique Middle East.