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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... CONTEXT 7 In addition , this volume limits itself to nineteenth - century , English - speaking women interpreters of the Bible . Each of these descriptors requires elucidation . We will focus on the nineteenth - century context first of ...
... context that made visible the inherent inequities of their situation . The two spheres were separate and unequal . Some women became aware that the glori- fied language of women's high calling masked the limitations imposed on them ...
... context . Others , such as Etty Woos- nam , promote the ideal of woman as the angel of the house , the one entrusted with moral guidance . She extols the ability women have to influence their hus- bands and , using Eve as an example ...
... interpreters , see the volume of primary sources collected by Taylor and Weir in Let Her Speak for Herself . cal context binds them together . This restriction makes this 14 NINETEENTH - CENTURY WOMEN INTERPRETERS OF THE BIBLE.
Christiana de Groot, Marion Ann Taylor. cal context binds them together . This restriction makes this volume comparable to Reading the Bible as Women : Perspectives from African , Asia and Latin America , 46 although that volume is ...
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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 |