Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the BibleChristiana de Groot, Marion Ann Taylor 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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... views on the authority of Scripture. Annie Besant is the only voice included in this volume who repudiated the status of Scripture as God's word . At one time the wife of an Anglican dE GROOT ANd TAYLOR: RECOVERING WOMEN'S VOICES.
... Anglican clergyman , she later concluded that not only had Christianity shackled women by its primitive teaching , but that this teaching was based in Scripture . When she wrote her two pamphlets , Woman's Position according to the ...
... Anglican lectionary . Trimmer passed over Song of Songs in one sentence but included at least a paragraph on every chapter in Ezekiel.15 Further , she did not comment on some passages that were included in the lectionary ; for example ...
... Anglican liturgy . She clearly saw support and precedent for the services and prayers in the regulations around worship in the Pentateuch ; she read the Old Testament in light of the New Testa- ment , seeing the church's liturgy and ...
... Anglican liturgy and practice , finding parallels between the cultic ceremonies described in the text and the practices of the Church of England . In one case she found no suitable parallel in contemporary practice , so she suggested a ...
Contents
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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 |