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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... .............................................................................. 99 florence nightingale: A mother to many Christiana de Groot ...........................................................................................
... Nightingale , Harriet Beecher Stowe , and Elizabeth Wordsworth , were very learned . Although their formal education was minimal , their learning was self - directed and / or under the tutelage of a family member.37 In each case , the ...
... Nightingale and Wordsworth read Hebrew and Greek, and all three were conversant with biblical scholarship. Because they integrated these new ideas into their work of inter- pretation, they functioned as a conduit, passing on the ...
... Nightingale and Sarah Ewing Hall belonged to the high- est echelons of society . Both had inherited wealth and did not need to earn a living . Another group of interpreters are middle class . Women such as Mary Cornwallis , Stowe , and ...
... Nightingale , seem to have a weak sense of female identity . In her Annotated Bible , she nowhere com- ments on or identifies with the female characters in the text . The only character she does identify with is Joseph . However , when ...
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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 |