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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... Christ and his church , but being all figurative language it is not easy to explain it ; you may therefore pass it over , without puzzling yourself to understand it , as all which it is designed to 13. Some Account , 1 : 144 . teach us ...
... Christ . ( iv ) Further evidence of the importance of the liturgy to Trimmer is found in her remarks on Exod 30 : 31-33 , in which the oil and perfume used in the service of the tabernacle are banned from other uses : The strict charge ...
... Christ for this purpose . Yet it is a general practice for people of all ranks to turn their backs upon the holy table , the altar of the Lord , as if there were no use in going to it . ( 93 ) 17 Trimmer also used passages from the ...
... Christ and the Holy Ghost the Supporters of the Spiritual Life, and Repentance the Forerunner of Faith: Two Sermons [on Prov. xx. 27; and Isaiah xl. 3–5] Preached before the University of Oxford (1755). 16. Of note are Sir William Jones ...
... Christ and the church and argues against reading it as a song describing the love between Christ and the individual believer. She thought this reading encouraged the type of religious enthusiasm practiced by the Moravians and other ...
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 |