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  • From: Jonathan Bailey <jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew list <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re[2]: Alma, Parthenos, Virgin
  • Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:52:20 +0100


Paul's understanding of the significance of the Hagar/Sara story that he lays
out in
Galatians is typology. So the statement about typology being part of the
bible still
stands, if it is the Christian bible that one is talking about. Of course if
one is speaking
of the Hebrew bible only, then of course typology is ruled out by the
definition that
someone made up. But this is just playing with words. To find common patterns
throughout the bible in historical stories (that is, stories which discuss
events which
occur on a historical framework-whether they are historically true or not is
not the
point) which reflect spiritual realities is something which applies to the Old
Testament, rabbinical exegetical tradition, the New Testament, and Christian
exegetical tradition. To call this phenomenon (of which your definition of
typology is
simply the intertestamental aspect of) anti-biblical is ludicrous to the
highest order.




Jonathan Bailey
MA Kandidat
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien
Heidelberg
---------- Original Message ----------

>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

>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Jim West, ThD
>jwest AT highland.net
>http://web.infoave.net/~jwest


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