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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... meaning advocating for women , was not extant for most of the nineteenth century . The Oxford English Dictionary lists its first use as descriptive of an ideology or movement in 1894 , in the Daily News of 12 October . 18. Cott , Bonds ...
... meaning considered.28 The developments in the academy , science , travel , and archaeology , how- ever , did not obliterate the traditional noncritical approach to the Bible , which as Gerald Bray suggests , " remained influential in ...
... meaning of mother to include the care for all in need . While identifying with Joseph , she revises the epitaph from “ a father to Pharaoh ” to " a mother to many ? " 39 This variety of self - reflection on women's roles and identities ...
... meanings of the biblical text . BIBLIOGRAPHY Bird , Phyllis , ed . Reading the Bible as Women : Perspectives from Africa , Asia and Latin America . Semeia 78 ( 1997 ) . Bray , Gerald . Biblical Interpretation : Past and Present ...
... meaning of the Bible . In Trim- mer's mind , the Church of England embodied rational faith and right practice , and she read Scripture in the light of that faith and practice . The importance of liturgy for Trimmer's understanding of ...
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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 |