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Literary critics who endeavour to read The Great Code, Northrop Frye’s monograph on the Bible and Literature (1982), might be somewhat puzzled when first confronting its Table of Contents. Four words constitute the architectural pillars of this book: ‘language’, ‘metaphor’, ‘myth’ and ‘typology’. The first three words belong to the everyday vocabulary of a literary scholar but he might find the fourth word odd and curious: ‘typology’. Provided he is of an inquisitive mind he might cautiously and silently raise the question: ‘What then, is typology?’
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Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982)
Erich Auerbach, ‘Figura’ in Scenes from the Drama of European Literature, trans. R. Mannheim (New York: Meridian, 1959) pp. 11–74
A. C. Charity, Events and Their Afterlife: the Dialectics of Christian Typology in the Bible and Dante (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966)
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and Seventeenth Century Religious Lyric (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979)
William G. Madsen, From Shadowy Types to Truth: Studies in Milton’s Symbolism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980)
Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974)
George P. Landow, Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980)
Paul J. Korshin, Typologies in England 1650–1820 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982).
Friedrich Ohly, ‘Vom Geistigen Sinn des Wortes in Mittelalter’, in Schriften zur Mittelalterlichen Bedeutungsforschung (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellshaft, 1977): 1–31.
Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1956)
Ursula Brumm, American Thought and Religious Typology (New Brunswick: Rutgers, University Press, 1970)
Sacvan Bercovitch (ed.), The American Puritan Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974)
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P. Joseph Cahill’s review of Creation and Recreation in Studies in Religion: Science religieuse 10 (1981) 235–6
John Ayre, Northrop Frye: A Biography (Toronto: Random House, 1989) p. 109.
Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism Four Essays (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1957)
Paul Ricoeur, ‘What is a Text?’, in David Klemm (ed.), The Hermeneutical Inquiry, Vol. 1 (Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1986, pp. 233–45).
P. Joseph Cahill, ‘The Unity of the Bible’, in Biblica, 65 (1984): 406.
Brevard S. Childs, ‘The Sensus Literalis’ of Scripture: An Ancient and Modern Problem’, in H. Donner, R. Hanhart, R. Smend (eds), Beitrage zur Alttestamentliche Theologie: FS Walter Zimmerli (Göttingen: Vanhock and Ruprecht, 1977), pp. 80–99.
Gerald T. Sheppard, The Future of the Bible: Beyond Literalism and Liberalism (Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1990), p. 29.
A frequently recurring notion in Paul Ricoeur’s writings, especially in Symbolism of Evil (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967)
J. R. Darbyshire, ‘Typology’, in Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. XIX (Edinburgh, 1921), pp. 503–4.
Rudolf Bultmann, ‘Urprung und Sinn der Typologie als hermeneutischer Methode’, in Theologische Literaturzeitung, 75 (1950): 205–12.
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Fabiny, T. (1992). Introduction. In: The Lion and the Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22113-4_1
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