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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,...

the episode of Noah’s drunkenness. In the midst of the ways these features work together, having just considered the covenantal import of Moses, note that Yahweh declares himself to be establishing his covenant with Noah (Gen 9:9, 11, 12, 17). The (1) re-used term “ark” works with (2) quotations of phrases or whole lines, Genesis 1:28 in 9:1, and (3) repeated sequences of events (on which see in Chapter 2) all of which join with (4) similarity in salvation-historical and covenantal import to establish
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