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Entry: The Death of God Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_death_of_god#712 Post contents: Death Bredon is on the right track, but it's a little more than that. Moses is a Old Testament type of the New Testament Christ, just as Israel in the Old Testament is a type of the New Testament Church. The word "type" here is a theological term, which the Oxford American Dictionary defines as "a foreshadowing in the Old Testament of a person or event of the Christian tradition." This interpretation of the Old Testament in the light of the New is, in fact, the most ancient Christian interpretation. It begins in the New Testament itself--the Epistle to the Hebrews is a very good example, which is why the Church has traditionally, during the first four weeks of Lent, offered readings from Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy in the Liturgy of the Hours, and then, in the fifth week of Lent and Holy Week, turned to Hebrews for the New Testament interpretation of those readings. And that's were Trudi Wullimann has it wrong--most modern Christians, especially evangelicals and fundamentalists, and those influenced by them, such as George W. Bush, hold a very literal reading of the Old Testament and are incapable of seeing Moses as a type of Christ and Israel as a type of the Church. That's why they so often fall into the trap of Christian Zionism. (And, sadly, this theological ignorance and lack of understanding of how the Church Fathers interpreted the Old Testament is all too prevalent among Catholics, as well--both modernist ones and those among the traditionalists who end up going off into the fever swamps of antisemitism.) Sent at: 2008 08 29