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  • From: jim west <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
  • Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 09:17:49 -0500


At 03:29 PM 10/31/99 +0200, you wrote:

>
>A little research and a lot less ranting and you might find out that
typology is

*chuckle*- you have no idea as to what I have or have not researched. My
ThM thesis was EXACTLY on the subject of typology.

>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

You have confused typology - which is the act of finding OT prototypes for
NT events or ideas- for inner biblical interpretation. One is
intertestamental and the other is intratestamental.

Perhaps, then, it is not really "I" that needs to do a little more research
in the area.

Best,

Jim

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