Reading the Old Testament Faithfully 1

Prolegomena

Expectations

I’m learning too

Where I see myself going

Responding to theology

Giving you the tools to do theology

Integrity and humility in interpretation

The ineffability of God

Typology Overview

Typology is God-ordained, author-intended historical correspondence and escalation in significance between people, institutions, and events across the Bible’s redemptive-historical story.

Romans 5:14

The Spirit does not contradict the Spirit (So the NT authors do not use the OT in a illegitimate way). Also, they do not just use the OT text just in passing (meaning: that they do not just directly quote the OT by chance because they are so familiar with it. Though this might happen, it is unlikely to say that a corresponding event and corresponding phrasing is coincidence and not authorial intent).

The OT authors were certainly pointing forward to someone they did not know exactly how it was going to be fulfilled (Ephesians 3:5 and 1 Peter 1:10-12). That is, they didn’t precisely know how the types they presented were going to be fulfilled, none the less they had a strong inclination (very strong) and they did know they were going to be fulfilled.

The different types of types:

Prototype

Ectype

Archetype

Antitype

Micro-Indicators

Reuse of Key-terms

Exodus 2:3 (תֵּבָה) Ark, is drawing a correspondence to himself and Noah

Duane Garrett says, “Moses is a new Noah, who goes through water in his ark sealed with tar in order to save the people of God from a wicked generation.”

Genesis 1:28, 2:15, 4:2.

Quotation of phrases or lines

Genesis 15:7 and Exodus 20:2.

נִ֣י יְהוָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר הוֹצֵאתִ֨יךָ֙ מֵא֣וּר כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים

אָֽנֹכִ֖י֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֧ר הוֹצֵאתִ֛יךָ מֵאֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרַ֖יִם מִבֵּ֣֥ית עֲבָדִֽ֑ים

Deuteronomy 31:6, Joshua 1:6-9, Joshua 10:25, 1 Chronicles 22:13, 1 Chronicles 28:20, 2 Chronicles 32:7, Psalm 31:24, and Daniel 10:19.

Genesis 12:7 and Genesis 24:7.

Genesis 24:7, Exodus 23:20, Malachi 3:1, Mark 1:2.

Repetition of sequences of events

Both Abraham and Jacob descend into Egypt because of a famine, they are

Daniel and Joseph are both elevated in a foreign court

Matthew presents Jesus are a New Moses (an antitypical Israelite)

Similarity in salvation-historical significance

Noah and Moses again, because God mediated a covenant through them.

The exodus in Exodus and crossing the Jordan in Joshua

Divine Commentary and a Biblical-theological understanding of the world

Hosea 12:4.

Psalm 83:11. (Judges 8:21)

Establishing the author’s intention and how he is intentionally corresponding concepts.