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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... .......................................................... 181 Annie besant: An Adversarial interpreter of scripture Christiana de Groot ..........................................................................................
... Besant's work was published in London and Chicago , and Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes of hearing Besant speak when she visited England . 9. See Nancy Cott , The Bonds of Womanhood : " Woman's Sphere " in New England , 1780– 1835 ( New ...
... her stated 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 ...
... Besant's separation from her husband resulted in her needing to write and speak to be self - supporting . McAuley ... Besant and Josephine Butler are exceptions . In her tracts , Besant writes of the inequities in the marriage laws in ...
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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 |