Typology: Pros and cons in biblical hermeneutics and literary criticism (from Leonhard Goppelt to Northrop Frye)

Abstract

This essay is a survey of various theories of biblical typology (figuralism) in 20th century biblical hermeneutics and literary criticism. It discusses the origins of the issue in the Goppelt-Bultmann controversy, and rehearses the positions of biblical scholars, such as Danielou and De Lubac, Von Rad and his critics, Dentan, Markus and Lampe, the more creative approaches of Baker and Cahill, as well as those of literary critics: Auerbach, Charity, Ohly, Galdon and Frye.