happened.” Today there is a greater recognition of the subjective factors that influence every historian’s representation of the past.35 As the reconstruction of a historian, history is interpretation since any reading, say, of the OT texts, no less than the typological, is done through interpretive spectacles. While it can be plausibly argued that the OT writers themselves had in view a future significance of the things they were relating,36 this is not necessary for the argument that such a significance
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