Episode 290: Typology, Continued: The Bible’s Vision of History. The Exodus-Gospel Parallel.

The Bible’s vision of history is neither linear and progressive nor cyclical, but a unique combination of the two called typology, in which Old Testament types foreshadow New Testament antitypes that fulfill them. Hence what Northrop Frye calls the “double mirror” structure of the Bible, seen most clearly in the Exodus-Gospel parallel.