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

by G.R. Evans

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521423937
• ISBN13: 9780521423939
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"