Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the BibleChristiana de Groot, Marion Ann Taylor Society of Biblical Lit, 18.9.2007 - 244 sivua Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture throughout the ages, yet the usual history of biblical interpretation includes few women’s voices. To introduce readers to this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation, this volume presents forgotten works from the nineteenth century written by women—including Grace Aguilar, Florence Nightingale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others—from various faith backgrounds, countries, and social classes engaging contemporary biblical scholarship. Due to their exclusion from the academy, women’s interpretive writings addressed primarily a nonscholarly audience and were written in a variety of genres: novels and poetry, catechisms, manuals for Bible study, and commentaries on the books of the Bible. To recover these nineteenth-century women interpreters of the Bible, each essay in this volume locates a female author in her historical, ecclesiastical, and interpretive context, focusing on particular biblical passages to clarify an author’s contributions as well as to explore how her reading of the text was shaped by her experience as a woman. |
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... England were almost entirely women's movements . In these organizations ... church or in the meeting hall , women worked together out- side the home in ... England , trace the pattern of feminism growing out of and responding to the ...
... England from 1800 to 1857. He also argues that they became much more widely known through a number of highly publicized and contro- versial critical works by English scholars and church leaders from 1858 to 1879 and virtually ...
... Church of England , does , however , subvert the patriarchal tradition in surprising ways . Understood in its context , Trimmer's work challenges an oversimple division of women's writings into feminist and tra- ditionalist categories ...
... Church of England . Trimmer heard Scripture read publicly week after week , sur- rounded by the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer . The liturgy was the context in which she learned , understood , and taught the meaning of the Bible ...
... Church of England services in her comments on the Pentateuch ; these references show concern that her readers understand the proper purposes of the services included in the Anglican liturgy . She clearly saw support and precedent for ...
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Conversations on the Bible with a Lady of Philadelphia | 45 |
Catherine McAuleys Interpretation of Scripture | 63 |
A NineteenthCentury Woman as PsalmReader | 81 |
The Kitchen and the Study | 99 |
A Mother to Many | 117 |
Translating the Letter of Scripture Into Life | 149 |
The Prophetic Voice of Christina Rossetti | 165 |
NineteenthCentury Oxford Principal and Bible Interpreter | 181 |
An Adversarial Interpreter of Scripture | 201 |
A Woman of Wisdom and Conviction | 217 |
Contributors | 233 |
Index of Ancient Sources | 235 |
Index of Modern Authors | 241 |