The Language and Logic of the Bible
The Language and Logic of the Bible
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USDThis 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 to apply fresh tools to the task.
- Fascinating study exploring the structure and texture of Biblical language, which will be of interest to biblical students, theologians, church historians, and some students of literature
- The author is a very well-known and highly-respected scholar, who has published 5 very successful CUP books to date, including the critically-acclaimed Augustine on Evil
- The subject is of perennial interest, and the hardback has been well-reviewed (the SOTS Booklist called it 'fascinating reading'), the paperback should be similarly successful
Reviews & endorsements
"The presuppositions, methods and habits of Latin writers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries learnedly examined and lucidly expounded, with a glance back to Augustine and Gregory...The interplay of philosophy and tradition with sacred text makes fascinating reading." Society for Old Testament Study Booklist
Product details
November 1991Paperback
9780521423939
220 pages
214 × 139 × 12 mm
0.29kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 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.
