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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... writing on the Bible for a millen- nium at least.1 In fact , for the few women who were educated and literate , the Bible was often the only book they read and were instructed about . Because it was sacred Scripture and because its ...
... writing of those who have gone before . Even those women who were remarkable speakers and writers in their lifetime were quickly forgotten and their legacy lost.2 For example , a work as significant and recent as Elizabeth Cady ...
... Writing on Women in Genesis ( ed . M. Taylor and H. Weir ; Waco , Tex .: Baylor University Press , 2006 ) , introduces the writings of fifty women . Excerpts from primary sources of many of the women studied in this volume are included ...
... writing proposals and pamphlets , and public speaking.19 The evangelical movement also contributed to the strengthening of women's voices . The revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , with their empha- sis on the gifts 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 |