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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... women's roles and the relationship between the public and private . " Whereas the home had previously been the site of economic production , child rearing , and domestic activity , with both father and mother involved in overlapping ...
... women's roles : “ Since service is the highest lot , / And angels know no higher bliss , / Then with what good her cup is fraught / Who was created but for this ” ( cited by Marion Taylor in “ Elizabeth Rundle Charles : Translating the ...
... roles as moral guardians . Movements such as the temperance movement in both the United States and England were almost entirely women's movements . In these organizations , they learned the skills of organizing , administering events ...
... women to own property and keep their earnings , to initiate divorce , to receive an education , and to vote . ADVANCES IN BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE NINEteenth CenTURY In addition to the wide - ranging changes in women's roles , the ...
... women's writings . This variety of genres corresponds to the variety of audiences addressed by women writers . Out of acceptable female roles such as mother and teacher of children , Sarah Trimmer wrote a commentary entitled A Help 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 |