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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... mother Marion Ann Taylor ... mother to many Christiana de Groot ........................................................................................... 117 reading between ...
... 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 activity was ...
... mothers stayed at home with their children and did not contribute to the family income . Lower - class women , in the nine- teenth century as today , did not have the choice to stay home — their earnings were needed to feed , clothe ...
... mothers became the “ angel of the house " on whom the family depended for their happiness , tranquility , and spiritual guidance.15 The vocation of motherhood was applauded as crucial for the maintenance of proper society . By raising ...
... mother and teacher of children , Sarah Trimmer wrote a commentary entitled A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scripture ( 1805 ) , and Sarah Ewing Hall wrote Conversations on the Bible ( 1818 ) , a commentary on the Bible ...
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 |