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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... God moved on the face of the waters " ( Gen 1 : 2 ) . Darwin's theory of evolution also provided a new model for thinking about development in the biblical history . Many interpreters found the developmental paradigm helpful for ...
... God's voice in the book that they continued to regard as much more than " any other book . " 32 WOMEN AS INTERPRETERS OF SCRIPTURE Finally , this volume includes the writing of women interpreters . The decision to publish women's ...
... God intends for humanity. The trajectory is to be followed. In various ways, women integrated their views on God's will for women with their reading of Scripture from the vantage point of faith. Not all the women studied here are ...
... God's Views on Marriage ( 1890 ) , she mocked believers . For her , the Old and New Testaments have no special status— they are purely human books whose contents are oppressive to women and should be disregarded . In addition to the ...
... God has graciously caused to be written as a guide to direct them to HEAVEN " ( 87 ) . A Help to the Unlearned was ... God's holy laws and ordinances ; the wild grapes signified wicked practices , directly contrary to his precepts and ...
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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 |