Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 03:29 PM 10/31/99 +0200, you wrote:
>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, I always find it interesting when people who are not fa,miliar with
Rabbinic works, attempt to use them to make some point in favor of a pet
theory. Obviously that passage is not meant seriously, since according to
tradition Avraham was thrown into a furnace, and of  course we can mention
many things that are different.
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