The Language and Logic of the Bible ：The Earlier Middle Ages

Publication subTitle ：The Earlier Middle Ages

Author： G. R. Evans  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 1991

E-ISBN: 9781139239721

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521423939

Subject： B971 Bible

Keyword： 圣经

Language： ENG

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The Language and Logic of the Bible

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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, 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 distinct skills in grammar and logic made it possible to develop more refined critical methods and to apply fresh tools to the task.

Chapter

Cover

Half-title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of ancient and mediaeval sources

Biographical notes

Introduction

1 The Fathers on the Bible's language

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IV

V

2 Lectio, disputatio, predicatio

Part I The background

1 The monastic way

1 Rupert of Deutz and'holy reading'

2 Anselm of Canterbury: a new look at the Bible's language

2 Bible study in the schools

1 The academic way

2 Introducing the Bible

3 The use of the artes

3 A standard commentary: the Glossa Ordinaria

Part II Lectio: surface and depths

4 Words and things and numbers

1 Words and things

2 Numbers

5 The historical sense and history

6 Exegesis and the theory of signification

1 The theory of signification

2 Imposition

3 Dictionaries

4 Grammar and practical criticism

5 Joint meanings: consignification

6 More meaning than appears: implicitness in words

7 Implicit propositions

8 No meaning on their own

7 Transference of meaning

1 Similitudes and analogies

2 Figures of speech

3 The four senses

Part III Disputation

8 Questions

9 Contradictory authorities

10 A new approach to resolving contradictions

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Conclusion

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Notes

Select bibliography

Index

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