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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... ..................................................... 31 conversations on the bible with a lady of philadelphia Bernon P. Lee .............................................................................................
... Lady Wisdom builds a house and invites men who would be wise to eat , acknowledges the female per- sonification of wisdom but does not emphasize it : “ In these verses wisdom is described under the similitude of a person who has ...
... Lady of Brentford ( Hounslow , U.K .: Hounslow & District Historical Society , 1972 ) , 25-26 . 7. The school was called the Reverend Cornwallis's Church of England Primary School and was built in Wittersham , Kent . The advertisement ...
... Ladies (1826) and doubtless influenced her daughter's later publishing efforts. Cornwallis's four-volume work looks very much like a standard multivolume biblical commentary that addresses textual, interpretive, and practical issues ...
... Ladies demonstrates her interest in both practical and academic issues related to the ongoing life of the church.26 Her desire to teach others extended to the read- ers of Observations whom she desired might be able to study Scripture ...
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 |