for example, were understood to be analogies for what God did in a similar way with Jesus Christ. God raised Jonah from the whale. God raised Jesus from the dead. Dillenberger elaborates, “These correspondences demonstrated the unity of the Old Testament with the New, and showed the events of Jesus’ life as a fulfillment of God’s purpose which had been working through the history of his chosen people and his chosen prophets.”6 The melding of content from the Old Testament with art forms influenced
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