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==Distinction between Typology and Allegory==
[[Image:Burning bush, (Damaskinos).jpg|right|thumb|The [[Theotokos]] with the Burning Bush. (''[[Michael Damaskinos|Damaskinos]], 16th c.'')]]
Typology stresses the connection between actual persons, events, places, and institutions of the Old Testament, and their corresponding reality in the New Testament which they foreshadowed.<ref>Fr. John Breck, ''Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and it Interpretation in the Orthodox Church'' (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir Seminary Press, 2001) p.22f.</ref> Moses the Lawgiver foreshadows Christ, the ultimate Lawgiver. [[Aaron]], the High priest, foreshadows Christ, the ultimate High Priest. [[Manna]], which fed the people in the wilderness foreshadows the Christ the Heavenly Bread (the [[Eucharist]]), which provides ultimate spiritual nourishment. The [[Burning Bush]] foreshadows the [[Theotokos]].
Typology stresses the connection between actual persons, events, places, and institutions of the Old Testament, and their corresponding reality in the New Testament which they foreshadowed.<ref>Fr. John Breck, ''Scripture in Tradition: The Bible and it Interpretation in the Orthodox Church'' (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir Seminary Press, 2001) p.22f.</ref> Moses the Lawgiver foreshadows Christ, the ultimate Lawgiver. [[Aaron]], the High priest, foreshadows Christ, the ultimate High Priest. [[Manna]], which fed the people in the wilderness foreshadows the Christ the Heavenly Bread (the [[Eucharist]]), which provides ultimate spiritual nourishment. Allegory, on the other hand, finds hidden or symbolic meaning in the Old Testament, which is inherent in text and does not depend on a future historical fulfillment; for example, I Corinthians 9:8-10 sees the law forbidding the muzzling of an ox while it treads the corn as having the hidden meaning that a minister of the Gospel should be supported by the people he ministers to. The [[Song of Solomon]] is also often interpreted as an allegory of God (the Lover), and His love for His people (the beloved). The allegorical approach also often sees multiple correspondences in a given narrative which illustrate some point. For example, St. Paul explicitly uses allegory in [[Galatians]] 4, in which he sees the child of the slave woman ([[Hagar]]) as representing those under the Law, while the child of the free woman ([[Sarah]]) as representing those under the New Covenant, and the casting out of Hagar and [[Ishmael]] as representing the inferiority of the Old Covenant to the New (Galatians 4:21-31).
==Sources==
*[http://www.theopedia.com/Biblical_typology Biblical Typology]. At Theopedia.
*[http://books.google.ca/books?id=zD6xVr1CizIC&pg=PA792&lpg=PA792&dq=biblical+christian+typologies&source=web&ots=03BSdOPF1q&sig=WP40ldWTq6tmtIk1QXIrgxhx_Wo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature] by David L. Jeffrey. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1992. ISBN 9780802836342
*[http://www.bible-researcher.com/type.html Typology of Scripture], by William G. Moorehead
*[http://www.bible-researcher.com/fritsch.html Biblical Typology], by Charles T. Fritsch
*Fr. Georges A. Barrois. [http://www.amazon.com/Face-Christ-Old-Testament/dp/0913836222 The Face of Christ in the Old Testament]. [[St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, New York)|St Vladimirs Seminary Press]], January 1997. 172pp. ISBN 9780913836224
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