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Typology: Understanding the Bible’s Promise-Shaped Patterns; How Old Testament Expectations are Fulfilled in Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

Read the Bible with Fresh Eyes as You See Scripture’s Promise-Shaped Patterns When you read the Bible, have you ever noticed parallels between certain people, events, and institutions? Should we understand Noah as a kind of new Adam, and if so, does that somehow point us to the second Adam? How are we to interpret these similarities? In Typology-Understanding the Bibles Promise-Shaped Patterns,...

Conclusion to this book, in the final section of the final chapter, we return to Genesis 24, so that discussions of the central episode in the literary structure of Genesis form an inclusio around this treatise.4 The phrase “promise-shaped typology” attempts to capture what happens when God makes a promise that results in those who know him interpreting the world in the terms and categories either communicated in the promise or assumed by it. God’s words shape the world in Genesis 1, and as the
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