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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... scholarship for its support in preparing the manuscript for publication. further, these essays would not have seen the light of day were it not for the commitment of christopher r. matthews, the sbl symposium series editor, to grant ...
... scholarship and as a result was not passed on to subsequent generations of interpreters . Contemporary publication of essays on women interpreters is especially gratifying because it indicates the openness of the academy to women's ...
... scholarship gradually spread to the English- speaking world . The response to this new scholarship was varied . John Rogerson concludes that critical ideas and methods were sometimes applied and more often refuted in England from 1800 ...
... scholarship and who valued the efforts of their daughter or wife . Both Stowe and Words- worth participated in family projects that centered on interpreting Scripture . Stowe worked with her husband , Calvin Stowe , and Wordsworth with ...
... scholarship. Because they integrated these new ideas into their work of inter- pretation, they functioned as a conduit, passing on the developments of biblical scholarship to the laity. For example, Nightingale's revision of 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 |