| I wonder if some of the research on manuscript layouts can be helpful
| here? Ares there, for instance, some valid conclusions to be drawn about
| the "psychology" of exegesis based on how these manuscripts were
| assembled. Martin Irvine's "The Making of Textual Culture" has some
| interesting material on the variations in how these manuscripts and
| commentaries were assembled. It may be that to look, quite literally, at
| the texts as they were "formatted" to use a computer term, would be
| useful. THat or I have been hanging around with codicologists too much.
| Regards, Terry
Interesting point. Ann Matter gave a paper on this subject (or
alluded to it) at Kzoo a few years back. I don't know if she has
published it yet. The main objection (and it is not really a major
problem) I have had to these approaches is that they often only focus
on one filter for exegesis, one of many (the Gloss, canon law,
liturgy, etc). Given the complexity of these issues, this is not a
defect; I suppose I just want someone to give a guide for bringing
these issues together. God help us, if that is left up to me. :-)
I should also say thanks to Steven Cartwright for his bibliographical
suggestions on this topic.
Cheers
Jim
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