TY - BOOK AU - Evans,G.R. TI - The language and logic of the Bible: the earlier Middle Ages SN - 0521263719 AV - BS537 .E94 1984 U1 - ARCH YNDC 220.609 E92L PY - 1984/// CY - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Bible KW - Language, style KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - History KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index; 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 ER -