Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the BibleChristiana de Groot, Marion Ann Taylor Society of Biblical Lit, 18.09.2007 - 244 Seiten 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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... christian 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 ...
... Christian society . The elevated role of mothers was new . Prior to the late eighteenth and nine- teenth centuries , women were entrusted with looking after the physical needs of children , while men were entrusted with shaping their ...
... Christian faith by her 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 ...
... Christian Education ( London : Rivington , 1812 ) , 204 . 6. Her later writing suggests that she read widely . One work she read and studied was Milton's Paradise Lost . See Trimmer , Some Account , 1 : 8-9 . 7. John Kirby published a ...
... Christian education for Trimmer , so it is not sur- prising that she published several books on teaching the Bible ... Christians in general to understand it ; and to direct the attention of the Bible student to such passages and texts ...
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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 |