Third, as the fulfillment or goal of the imperfect type, the antitype will be greater than the type that anticipated it.
Second, in order to prefigure its antitype, a type possesses certain significant correspondences or similarities to its antitype.
First, an Old Testament type prefigures its New Testament antitype. This definition brings together three related characteristics of the relationship between a type and its antitype. Events (like the Exodus), persons (like David), or institutions (like the Temple) are common categories for Old Testament types. Typology is the aspect of biblical interpretation that treats the significance of Old Testament types for prefiguring corresponding New Testament antitypes or fulfillments. I applaud him.Ĭhapter 1 lays the methodological foundation for the rest of the book. Hoskins is among many others in our day who are renovating an old hermeneutical practice that endured hard times due to abuse and rationalizing tendencies smuggled into Evangelical hermeneutics and an over-reaction to the critical method. The subsequent chapters provide a feast of interpretive morsels that will go a long way in understanding how the NT reads and applies the OT. The first chapter is worth the entire book.
Not only has he provided readers with a brief, compelling introduction to typology (chapter 1), he has exemplified careful, clearly argued typological interpretation (chapters 2-6). Hoskins has done all of us a great favor in publishing That Scripture Might Be Fulfilled: Typology and the Death of Christ. That Scripture Might Be Fulfilled: Typology and the Death of Christ,
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