Literary Uses of Typology From the late Middle Ages to the present
Earl Miner
- U.S.A. Princeton University Press 1977
- 403tr. Hardcover 23 cm
Christian typology originated in the belief that Jesus Christ fulfilled certain Jewish prophecies, especially those of a Messiah. It therefore provided Christians from the beginning with a means of accommodating to Christian belief the Scriptures of the Jews... In an effort to examine the literary uses of typology, the Department of English at Princeton sponsored a two-day seminar in April, 1974. The major emphases fell on literary practice, especially such practice in England and America. The results of that effort appear in this book, the chapters of which represent revised versions of the papers presented to the seminar...
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