Biblical Typology, or Typological Interpretation

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What is Typology (and Why Should We Care?)

• Definition
• Introduction

Forms

• historical
• legal
• prophetic
• extended
• secularized

Cultural Context

• Victorianism
• Pre-Raphaelitism

Literary Examples

• Typology and Victorian and earlier autobiography
• Biblical Typology and Autobiographical Structure
• Literary Techniques, Genres and Modes (sitemap)
• Specific Genres or Techniques
  • Sage-Writing
  • Narration & Point of View
  
• Characterization
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
• R. Browning, "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"
• R. Browning, The Ring and the Book
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning's use of types in Aurora Leigh

Symbolism and Imagery: examples of types

• The Cornerstone
• The Brazen Serpent
• Bruising the Serpent's Head
• Melchisedek
• Moses Striking the Rock, or the Smitten Rock
• The Temple in Jerusalem
• Moses Striking the Rock, or the Smitten Rock
• Henry Mevill's sermon, "The Death of Moses"

• Henry Mevill's sermon, "Simon the Cyrenian," 1843
• Noah's Ark
• The Pigsah Sight
• The Rainbow
• The Scapegoat
• The Finding of Moses

Bibliography

Patrick Fairbairn, The Typology of Scripture viewed in connection with the whole series of . . . The Divine Dispensations, 2 vols. Grand Rapids, 1975, reprint of N. Y., 1900 edition .

Landow, George P. "Shadows of Shadows: Biblical Typology and English Literature." Review 7 (1984 [a review of books by Paul J. Korshin, Herbert L. Sussman, and Leslie Tannenbaum -- full text]

Landow, George P. Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows; Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought. Boston and London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980 [full text]

Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, 7th ed., 4 vols. London, 1834.

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