Journal: Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
Volume: SBJT 24:1 (Spring 2020)
Article: God’s Parabolic Design For Israel’s Tabernacle: A Cluster Of Earthly Shadows Of Heavenly Realities
Author: Ardel B. Caneday

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God’s Parabolic Design For Israel’s Tabernacle: A Cluster Of Earthly Shadows Of Heavenly Realities

Ardel B. Caneday

Ardel B. Caneday is a writer, teacher, consultant, conference speaker, blogger, and adjunct professor at the University of Northwestern in Saint Paul, Minnesota where he served as Professor of New Testament and Greek for twenty-eight years until retirement in 2020. He received his PhD in New Testament from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dr. Caneday is the editor of For It Stands in Scripture: Essays in Honor of W. Edward Glenny (University of Northwestern Berntsen Library, 2019), the co-editor (with Mathew Barrett) of Four Views on the Historical Adam (Zondervan, 2013), the author of Must Christians Always Forgive? (Center for Christian Leadership, 2011). He has also written many scholarly book reviews and articles, including essays in two significant edited volumes: The Faith of Jesus Christ: Exegetical, Biblical, and Theological Studies (Paternoster, 2009) and A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in its Ancient Context (T&T Clark, 2008). Dr. Caneday is also the co-author (with Thomas R. Schreiner) of The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance and Assurance (InterVarsity, 2001).

Introduction: The Two Axes Of The Bible’s Types—Spatial And Temporal

Theological study of the Bible’s types is hardly confined either to the Bible’s uses of “type” (τύπος) or to those types expressly identified as such by the writers of the New Testament (NT).1 Though “type” with its derivatives (typology, typological, typologically) is a word that receives

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frequent use among Christians, but especially scholars who engage in intertextual studies, the τύπος word group is rather rare in the Greek NT and the Septuagint.2 Of the fifteen occurrences of τύπος within the NT the majority are in Paul’s letters, three are in Acts, two in John’s Gospel, and one each in Hebrews and 1 Peter.3 Of these fifteen uses of τύπος rarely do NT writers explicitly employ the word “type” (τύπος) to identify persons, institutions, events, or settings from the Old Testament (OT) that bear foreshadowing significance concerning things to come. In fact, only three uses have reference to elements from the OT pertaining to Messiah, and they materially contribute to a study of OT types (You must have a subscription and be logged in to read the entire article.
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