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The language and logic of the Bible : the earlier Middle Ages / G.R. Evans.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, G. R. (Gillian Rosemary)
- Series:
- Language and logic of the Bible.
- The Language and logic of the Bible.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Language, style.
- Bible.
- Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 199 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.
- Summary:
- All the apparatus of learning in the earlier Middle Ages had the ultimate purpose -- at least in principle -- of making it possible to understand the Bible better. The Fathers laid foundations on which their successors built for a thousand years and more and which helped to form and direct the principles of modern criticism. This study looks at the assumptions within which students of the Bible in the West approached their reading, from Augustine to the end of the twelfth century, when new skills in grammar and logic made it possible to develop more refined critical methods and apply fresh tools to the task.
- Contents:
- The Fathers on the Bible's language
- Lectio, disputatio, predicatio
- The background
- The monastic way
- Rupert of Deutz and 'holy reading'
- Anselm of Canterbury: a new look at the Bible's language
- Bible study in the schools
- The academic way
- Introducing the Bible
- The use of the artes
- A standard commentary: the Glossa Ordinaria
- Lectio: surface and depths
- Words and things and numbers
- Words and things
- Numbers
- The historical sense and history
- Exegesis and the theory of signification
- The theory of signification
- Imposition
- Dictionaries
- Grammar and practical criticism
- Joint meanings: consignification
- More meaning than appears: implicitness in words
- Implicit propositions
- No meaning on their own
- Transference of meaning
- Similitudes and analogies
- Figures of speech
- The four senses
- Disputatio
- Contradictory authorities
- A new approach to resolving contradictions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521263719
- 9780521263719
- 0521423937
- 9780521423939
- OCLC:
- 10456759
- Online:
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