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For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of
meaning.
* It will be useful now to notice a few more points in
Smalley’s Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages , that indicate
the steady development of new visual bias in later medieval
study of the Bible.
There was the early scholastic drive to break away from
literary contextual constraints: “Drogo, Lanfranc, and Berengar
use dialectic in order to tunnel underneath their text; they
attempt to reconstruct the logical process in the mind of their
author. Dialectic could also be used for building up a new
theological structure with the text as a base.” (p. 72).
To get at this process, of disengagement from the literary