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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... Theology old testament library society of biblical literature Dissertation series word biblical commentary westminster commentaries RECOVERING WOMEN'S VOICES IN THE HISTORY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION Christiana -ix- Abbreviations.
... theological study did not receive institutional support , either from the church or the academy , their writing was ephemeral , and the memory of them was lost . With the publication of this volume and others like it , this pattern of ...
... theological understanding of the text . They continued to use traditional methods of discern- ing God's voice in the book that they continued to regard as much more than " any other book . " 32 WOMEN AS INTERPRETERS OF SCRIPTURE Finally ...
... theology and bibli- cal studies . Not all of the authors surveyed here were well educated , but several , such as Florence Nightingale , Harriet Beecher Stowe , and Elizabeth Wordsworth , were very learned . Although their formal ...
... theology and ethics presented in Scripture. They posit that there is movement in Scripture from a more primi- tive to a more enlightened faith and therefore can conclude that the ethics and religion of the New Testament are superior to ...
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 |