G. R. Evans, Gillian R. Evans

The Language and Logic of the Bible

The Earlier Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Learning in the Middle Ages had the purpose of making it possible to understand the Bible better. This study looks at the assumptions within which Western Bible students from Augustine through the 12th century approached their reading and developed more refined critical methods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 317g
• ISBN-13: 9780521423939
• ISBN-10: 0521423937
• Artikelnr.: 21216040

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of ancient and mediaeval sources
Biographical notes
Introduction
Part I. The Background: 1. The monastic way
2. Bible study in the schools
3. A standard commentary: the Glossa Ordinaria
Part II. Lectio: Surface and Depths: 4. Words and things and numbers
5. The historical sense and history
6. Exegesis and the theory of signification
7. Transference of meaning
Part III. Disputatio: 8. Questions
9. Contradictory authorities
10. A new approach to resolving contradictions
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.