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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... mary cornwallis: voice of a mother Marion Ann Taylor ... mary Anne schimmelpenninck: A nineteenth-century woman as psalm-reader Lissa M. Wray Beal ..................................................................................
... Mary Cornwallis , and Harriet Beecher Stowe all employ the rhetoric of a preacher in their writings . Whether in the church or in the meeting hall , women worked together out- side the home in arenas that were understood to be ...
... Mary Ann Cross , née Evans ( 1819–80 ) , 35 otherwise known as George Eliot . The titles of these two works both suggest to the reader that the whole breadth of biblical interpretation will be surveyed ; that is certainly not the case ...
... Mary Anne SchimmelPenninck was aware of recent scholarship, yet she chose to reject it. Her work on the psalms remains largely precritical. Between the extremes of SchimmelPenninck and Nightingale are others, such as Stowe and ...
... Mary Cornwallis , Stowe , and Wordsworth are members of families headed by clergymen or scholars . Some women through changed circumstances began as middle class , then came precariously close to losing their support . Besant's ...
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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 |