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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... influential in the churches , and at the popular level generally . " 29 Indeed , a noncritical approach to the Bible flourished in Brit- ain and America . Most of the books on the Bible written by nineteenth - century Marion Ann Taylor ...
... influence their hus- bands and , using Eve as an example , admonishes women to use their power to good ends . Although all women were affected by their social context , some reflected on it openly in their writing and others did not ...
... influenced by her father's faith and also by his work as an author and artist . Joshua Kirby was a published author , as was ... influence on Trimmer's journal writing , see Some Account , 1 : 8 , 66 9. The memoir of Trimmer's life that ...
... influenced by a cultural tendency to avoid discussing sexuality openly ; the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century were marked by a shift in what was considered polite conversation.14 Trimmer did not explain how she ...
... influenced her daughter's later publishing efforts. Cornwallis's four-volume work looks very much like a standard multivolume biblical commentary that addresses textual, interpretive, and practical issues aris- ing from a careful study ...
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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 |