Scripture” leads us logically to a typological reading. Typology is an essential element in our biblical theology of Mary, and we need not shrink from it. It is superfluous to say that typology was integral to the patristic and medieval methods of exegesis and theology. It is self-evident that typology is the natural mode of understanding for the New Testament authors (and Jesus Himself), all of whom understood the entire Old Testament as inseparable from the Gospel they proclaimed. Saint Paul described