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The Application of Typology in the Interpretation of Middle Age’s Christian Art
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Hadi Rabi’i *   |
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Abstract: (17954 Views) |
| Typology in Christian theology and Biblical exegesis
is a doctrine or theory concerning the predictive
relationship of the Old Testament to the
New Testament. Events, persons or statements
in the Old Testament are seen as types pre-figuring
or superseded by antitypes, events or aspects
of Christ or his revelation described in the New
Testament. The elements of typological relations
consist of types in Old Testament and antitypes
in New Testament. In this system the unity of
Old and New Testaments of utmost importance
and the latter is seen and as the realization of the
former. This method may also be used in Biblical
exegesis especially in Book of Revelation as well
as other religious Christian texts. Yet this method
is not restricted to Bible and has been influential
in interpretation and appreciation of works of art.
This method enjoys such an importance that without
fully understand it one cannot comprehend the
narrative cycle and arrangement in some medieval
church images and the reasons behind their juxtapositions
on the walls. This article would discuss
the way for applying such a method in interpretation
of Christian medieval art and describes the
principals of this interpretive method. |
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| Keywords: typology, Christian art, Middle Age, artworks’ interpretation |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
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Received: 2014/06/11 | Accepted: 2014/06/11
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