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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... teachings were crucial to authorizing the patriar- chal traditions of the West , men taught it to women . Lerner quickly surveys the 1. Gerda Lerner's classic essay , “ One Thousand Years of Feminist Biblical Criticism , ” in idem , The ...
... teach in well - known universities , and write monographs and commentaries that are recognized by the academy . Other books surveying the history of interpretation in the nineteenth century also omit the contributions of women . For ...
... teach in the university.36 They did not have the opportunity to engage as equals in learned conversations about ... teacher of children , Sarah Trimmer wrote a commentary entitled A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy ...
... teaching , but that this teaching was based in Scripture . When she wrote her two pamphlets , Woman's Position according to the Bible ( 1885 ) and God's Views on Marriage ( 1890 ) , she mocked believers . For her , the Old and New ...
... teachers of their children and is aware that this vocation is not supported . She calls for men to be more involved with their families and decries the sad state of education for girls . Stowe , who endorses the cult of domesticity , 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 |