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