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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... scholars have demonstrated , the ideology of separate spheres was especially prized by the middle class.11 It was not attainable for the lower class , because it presumed that wives and mothers stayed at home with their children and did ...
... scholars and church leaders from 1858 to 1879 and virtually " triumphed in England , albeit in a form adapted to Evangelical and Catholic versions of progressive revelation , " by the close of the nineteenth cen- tury.23 German critical ...
... scholars such as Benjamin Jowett ( 1817–93 ) were advocating . Jowett argued , for example , that the traditional layered interpretation of Scripture should be set aside and only the original meaning considered.28 The developments in ...
... scholars were neither their dialogue partners nor their targeted readership . Hence , the scholarly essay , monograph , and commentary were not their preferred literary genres . For these reasons , when we seek to recover women's ...
... scholars . Some women through changed circumstances began as middle class , then came precariously close to losing their support . Besant's separation from her husband resulted in her needing to write and speak to be self - supporting ...
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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 |