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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... york: macmillan, 1987. Journal of Ecclesiastical History overtures to biblical Theology old testament library society of biblical literature Dissertation series word biblical commentary westminster commentaries RECOVERING WOMEN'S VOICES ...
... York : Oxford University Press , 1993 ) , 138–66 , documents the misogyny of the Western Chris- tian tradition and the repeated efforts of women to combat the arguments claiming that they were morally and intellectually inferior to men ...
... York : Con- tinuum , 1996 ) studies many forgotten male and female biblical interpreters . 3. Published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 in New York by the European Publishing Company . 4. Reprinted with an introduction by Barbara Welter ...
... York : Crossroad , 1997 ) . 7. The newly published Let Her Speak for Herself : Nineteenth - Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis ( ed . M. Taylor and H. Weir ; Waco , Tex .: Baylor University Press , 2006 ) , introduces the ...
... York : St. Martin's , 1992 ) describes how class figured into the two spheres ideal in England . The article by ... York : New York University Press , 1993 ) , 169–85 . She also describes the disconnect between the ideal of wives and ...
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 |