Lines of Thought

Ayelet Even-Ezra is a senior lecturer in the History Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Ecstasy in the Classroom: Trance, Self, and the Academic Profession in Medieval Paris and her articles have appeared in Harvard Theological Review, Traditio, and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, among many other publications.

Introduction

Part I

1 The Form: Chronological, Linguistic, and Cognitive Perspectives 1.1 Form: A Chronological Perspective
1.2 Form: A Linguistic Perspective
1.3 Form: A Cognitive Perspective
2 The Habit: On What, Where, Who, When, and How Often 2.1 Diagramming as a Form of Marginal Annotation
2.2 Parasitic, Embedded, and Tapestry Forms
2.3 Beyond the Classroom: French and Hebrew
2.4 Conclusion
Part II

3 Structures of Concepts: Distinctions 3.1 Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics 
3.2 Biblical Distinctions
3.3 Canon and Civil Law 
3.4 Medicine
3.5 Conclusion
4 Structures of Language 4.1 Verse and Rhyme
4.2 Letter Writing (Ars Dictaminis)
4.3 Grammar
5 Structure of Texts 5.1 Orientation and Composition: Theological Questions
5.2 Analysis: Argument
5.3 Analysis: Biblical Narrative
5.4 What HT Diagramming Tells Us about the Scholastic Perception of Texts: Authors as Architects, Texts as Wisely Made Constructions 
5.5 Coda: Back to the Future—Parallels to the Divisio Textus in Twentieth-Century Narrative Analyses
Appendix: Latin and English Surface Text of the Book of Job Parsed and Numbered (Translation Follows the English Standard Version)
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index