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Typology

Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns

James M Hamilton

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Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns

James M Hamilton

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Read the Bible with Fresh Eyes as You See Scripture's Promise-Shaped Patterns

When you read the Bible, have you ever noticed parallels between certain people, events, and institutions? Should we understand Noah as a kind of new Adam, and if so, does that somehow point us to the second Adam? How are we to interpret these similarities?

In Typology--Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patterns, author James M. Hamilton Jr. shows that the similarities we find in the Bible are based on genuine historical correspondence and demonstrates how we recognize them in the repetition of words and phrases, the parallels between patterns of events, and key thematic equivalences. When read in light of God's promises, these historical correspondences spotlight further repetitions that snowball on one another to build escalating significance.

This book stimulates fresh thinking on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments and will help pastors, preachers, and students better understand the dynamics of inner-biblical interpretation. It explores several of the "promise-shaped patterns" we see in the Old Testament including:

  • Adam and New Adam
  • Prophets, Priests, and Kings
  • The Righteous Sufferer
  • Creation
  • Exodus and New Exodus
  • Marriage

Hamilton shows that the prophets and sages of Israel learned to interpret Scripture from Moses and his writings. And by tracing the organic development of subsequent biblical patterns, he explains how these patterns created expectations that are fulfilled in Christ. Jesus himself taught his followers to understand the Old Testament in this way (Luke 24:45), and the authors of the New Testament taught the earliest followers of Jesus how to read the Bible through a typological lens.

Typology--Understanding the Bible's Promise-Shaped Patternsequips pastors, bible teachers, students, and serious Bible readers to understand and embrace the typological interpretive perspective of the biblical authors. You will learn to read the Bible as it was intended by its original authors while cultivating a deeper love and appreciation for the Scriptures.

  • Title

    Typology

  • Author(s)

    James M Hamilton

  • ISBN

    9780310534402

  • Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Zondervan

  • Audience

    Church Leaders

  • Pages

    432

  • Published

    01/04/2022

James M Hamilton

James M Hamilton

James M. Hamilton Jr. (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of biblical theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and preaching pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church.

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Superb!

You can read my longer review at SpoiledMilks (04/10/25). James M. Hamilton Jr.’s Typology offers a compelling and structured defense of typological interpretation in Scripture, rooted in canonical and covenantal continuity. Rather than reading Jesus into the Old Testament, Hamilton demonstrates how God’s promises shaped the biblical authors’ worldview, influencing how they structured and connected key persons, events, and institutions across redemptive history. His method emphasizes authorial intent and uses textual clues—like repetition, quotation, and thematic sequence—to highlight genuine typological patterns. The book unfolds in three parts: persons (e.g., Adam, Isaac, David), events (e.g., creation, exodus), and institutions (e.g., Levitical cult, marriage), and culminates in “macrolevel” patterns like chiasms in Genesis. Hamilton also offers thoughtful critiques of prosopological exegesis and helps us move away from committing eisegesis. Not all will agree with each connection, but the overall effect is compelling and deeply rooted in biblical theology. This book will richly benefit pastors, teachers, and scholars alike. It models careful exegesis while remaining accessible and spiritually edifying. Hamilton delivers on his aim: showing how the Bible’s “promise-shaped patterns” point faithfully and clearly to Christ. Review Disclosure: I received this book free from Zondervan Academic. The opinions I have expressed are my own, and I was not required to write a positive review.
Spencer

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