Breaking boundaries : female biblical interpreters who challenged the status quo / edited by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather Weir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calvert-Koyzis, Nancy.

Weir, Heather E.

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 524.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 524

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible and feminism.

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : T & T Clark, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While people often believe that the feminist movements in Britain and North America began in the late twentieth century, this is certainly not the case. Women throughout the centuries have sought to break out of the constraints that their societies deemed appropriate for them. For interpreters in the Christian tradition, this often meant examining biblical texts that had been understood in ways that demeaned women and using their interpretations to encourage women to break out of their culturally proscribed spheres. . The essays in this volume are drawn from the Recovering Female Interpreter

Contents:

Introduction : boundaries broken, voices heard / Heather E. Weir and Nancy Calvert-Koyzis

Retelling and misreading Jesus : Eudocia's Homeric cento / Brian Sowers

Vindicating womankind : Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum / Caryn A. Reeder

Reading nature before reading the Bible : Sarah Trimmer's natural theology / Heather E. Weir

Eliza Smith's The battles of the Bible : biblical interpretation in service of a Christian social agenda in nineteenth-century urban Scotland / Bernon Lee

"Miss Greswell honed our Hebrew at Oxford" : reflections on Joana J. Greswell and her book Grammatical analysis of the Hebrew Psalter (1873) / J. Glen Taylor

Harriet Beecher Stowe's interpretation of the Virgin Mary : the significance of maternal ideology for home and society / Nancy Calvert-Koyzis

Olympia Brown : reading the Bible as a Universalist minister and pragmatic suffragist / Beth Bidlack

Leaving Eden : resurrecting the work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr / Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Elizabeth Mary MacDonald : an early Canadian contribution to the study of women in the ancient Near East / Rebecca G.S. Idestrom

Ready to sacrifice all : the repentant Magdalene in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Nancy Calvert-Koyzis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613197368

9781283197366

1283197367

9780567384348

0567384349

OCLC:

741690057