Biblical Hebrew Forum

[John Ronning <ronning AT nis.za>]

jim west wrote:

>

> >
> >It's also typologically related to the miraculous conception
>
>
> typological interpretation of the OT is nothing less than sheer eisegesis
> which never allows the text to be heard.  it is the crudest sort of muzzling
> of the text in fact.  summa summarum, typology is anti-biblical.
>

A little research and a lot less ranting and you might find out that typology 
is
part of the OT itself - like the correspondences between Abraham's sojourn in
Egypt and Israel's.  "You will find that whatever is written in Scripture 
about
Abraham is written also about his descendants" (Genesis Rabbah 40.6).  Similar
observations are valid about vast areas of the OT, not just Genesis 12 
compared
to the exodus.

John