Recovering nineteenth-century women interpreters of the Bible / edited by Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Groot, Christiana.

Taylor, Marion Ann.

Series:

Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature) ; no. 38.

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Feminist criticism--History--19th century.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 244 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Recovering Women's Voices in the History of Biblical Interpretation

Helping the Unlearned: Sarah Trimmer's Commentary on the Bible*

Mary Cornwallis: Voice of a Mother*

Conversations on the Bible with a Lady of Philadelphia*

Wisdom and Mercy Meet: Catherine McAuley's Interpretation of Scripture

Mary Anne Schimmel Penninck: A Nineteenth-Century Woman as Psalm-Reader

Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Mingling of Two Worlds: The Kitchen and the Study*

Florence Nightingale: A Mother to Many

Reading between the Lines: Josephine Butler'sSocially Conscious Commentary on Hagar

Elizabeth Rundle Charles: Translating the Letter of Scripture Into Life*

The Prophetic Voice of Christina Rossetti

Elizabeth Wordsworth: Nineteenth-Century Oxford Principal and Bible Interpreter*

Annie Besant: An Adversarial Interpreter of Scripture

Etty Woosnam: A Woman of Wisdom and Conviction

Contributors

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Modern Authors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-58983-834-3

1-4356-2700-8

9781589838345

OCLC:

191684372