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

• Literary Techniques, Genres and Modes OV
• 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

Symbolism and Imagery

• The Cornerstone
• The Brazen Serpent
• Bruising the Serpent's Head
• Melchisedek
• Moses Striking the Rock, or the Smitten Rock
  • 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

Related Materials

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

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Print version published 1980; web version 1998; last updated 29 June 2009;
thanks to Martha J. Smith for catching broken links.