Reading the Old Testament Faithfully 2

Recap of Micro-indicators

Getting the tools to do theology on our own.

AUTHOR’S INTENT

Reuse of Key-terms

Quotation of phrases or lines

Repetition of sequences of events

Similarity in salvation-historical significance

The different types of types:

Prototype (1)

Ectype (2)

Archetype (3)

Antitype (4)

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

P.I.E

Persons (offices)

Institutions

Events

Persons

Prophet

Adam

Abraham

Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15-22)

Priest

Genesis 2:15.

Numbers 33.

Levitical

Melchizedekian

King

YHWH as King

Melchizedekian King?

Davidic King

Israelite

Adam

Righteous Sufferer

Institutions

Levitical Cult (Leviticult)

Marriage

Sacrificial System

Torah

Temple

Zechariah 8:2-3.

Covenant

Events

Creation

Exodus

Exile (wilderness)

Restoration

Garden/Eden/Land

The challenge of some of the subcategories in P.I.E. is that they can be shown/explained in different ways. For instance, Temple could also be understood within the theme of Mission or Mission within the theme of Temple.

Patterns

Our job as interpreters is to notice not only these different aspects that are developed throughout the Biblical narrative but also patterns that take shape by virtue of these. That is to say, that patterns (themes) and types support each other, they help each other develop a richer point.

For instance, think about how King (type) and Kingdom play off of each other. In fact, you can’t have one without the other! They’re friends!

Already Not Yet

Like the common (at least to me) New Testament theological phrase, “Already-not-yet,” the Old Testament lives in the same world. This is a very helpful thought process to have because, with it, we see paralleled redemptive situations (between the testaments). Meaning, that the prophets are looking for the Davidic King to come as a second Adam and bring a new exodus. This is realized (and inaugurated) in the person of Christ, in His incarnation, death, resurrection, and exaltation. However, don’t we too look for the coming Davidic King? We know who He is, however, we don’t know when. We too are looking for the Return of the King! So is it all that hard to see the paralleled situations between the OT and the NT. I don’t think so, and generally, the dissonance is overplayed.