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Essays in Biblical Theology explores the method set forth in Theological Poetics as developed through particular biblical characters. Following guidelines for a biblical, responsible method of typological interpretation of Scripture, this book examines the accounts of Moses, Joshua, David, Samson, and other biblical figures, showing how the depth and richness of these redemptive giants prefigure...

creation in the “image and likeness” of God (Gen 1:26). Such a creation implies that the recognition of the distinction between the original and its image, the essence of metaphoric awareness, is a fundamental competence given to all.12 This capacity, as presented in Genesis, has an ethical as well as an intellectual quality. It becomes the basis for the ethical choice that underlies our first defection in the “fall of man,” namely, the temptation to deny the distinction between the original and
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