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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... father and mother involved in overlapping ways , this now changed . The advent of factory work and trades practiced away from home resulted in men being more and more absent from the day - to - day affairs of the household ; economic ...
... father and sometimes other family members who were actively engaged in scholarship and who valued the efforts of their daughter or wife . Both Stowe and Words- worth participated in family projects that centered on interpreting ...
... father and received the equivalent of a Cambridge education, and she became a dialogue partner of Benjamin Jowett, the Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. Nightingale and Wordsworth read Hebrew and Greek, and all three were conversant ...
... father to Pharaoh ” to " a mother to many ? " 39 This variety of self - reflection on women's roles and identities reveals the breadth of interests that female as well as male interpreters have . Not only were men concerned with how ...
... father , Joshua Kirby ( 1716–74 ) , who was well read in theology and the only lay member of a local clerical club . His knowledge of divinity and appreciation of the established Church of England * This chapter was initially a paper ...
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 |