Similitudes

Book by Tim Adams

Typology/Dittochaeon

         Typology is not related to sentence structure, or poetry as chiasmus, but rather as revelation of future events through the Hebraic stories themselves.  Typology is repetitive to the extent that the first half of the story begins in one book and later manifests itself in another time, book, or place in history, (The phrase “History repeats itself,” so also with these types of similitudes).   Unlike Chiasmus, typology has no focal point the way chiasmus does when it inverts itself, but the latter half is repeated at another place and time that is “like unto” the first structure.  While most commonly known as typology; most “types” are more accurately considered historical metaphors. Another form of typology is called Diptychon or Dittochaeon.   The difference between the two is that typology can be simple short ideas.  A Dittochaeon on the other hand has multiple types that flow in an almost complete chronological order, sometimes through several chapters of a book.  These more compound types called Dittochaeons will be explored, and compared to the smaller typologies.