Jeremy Madsen writes academic article showing typological similarities with Noah, Abraham, and Moses stories in the Hebrew Bible.

Date
2020
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Periodical
Source
Jeremy Madsen
LDS
Hearsay
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Secondary
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Jeremy Madsen, "Covenant Peoples, Covenant Journeys: Archetypal Similarities Between the Noah, Abraham, and Moses Narratives," Studia Antiqua 19, no. 1 (2020): 1-17

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Studia Antiqua
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Jeremy Madsen
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Reading Public
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Abstract: The stories of Noah, Abraham, and Moses display remarkable similarities. All three follow a narrative pattern where God appears in theophany to a prophet-patriarch figure, God forms a covenant with this prophet-patriarch and his people to bring them to a new land, and God guides them on a divinely-assisted journey until they reach that land. Rather than being the result of typological shaping or historical resemblance, the narrative similarities between these three stories are most likely indicative of a common narrative archetype, which this paper titles the covenant journey archetype. The thrice-fold repetition of this archetype within the Pentateuch attests to the Israelites’ theological conviction that their God was a god of promises, guidance, and deliverance, who would fulfill his covenants with them as he did with their fathers.

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