Recovering Nineteenth-century Women Interpreters Of The Bible (symposium Series) (symposium Series) (society Of Biblical Literature Symposium)
by Christiana de Groot /
2007 / English / PDF
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Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture
throughout the ages, yet the standard history of biblical
interpretation includes few womens voices. To introduce readers to
this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation,
this volume analyzes forgotten works from the nineteenth century
written by womenincluding Christina Rossetti, Florence Nightingale,
and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among othersfrom various faith
backgrounds, countries, and social classes engaging contemporary
biblical scholarship. Due to their exclusion from the academy,
womens 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
authors contributions as well as to explore how her reading of the
text was shaped by her experience as a woman. The contributors are
Amanda Benckhuysen, Elizabeth Davis, Christiana de Groot, Rebecca
G. S. Idestrom, Donna Kerfoot, Bernon P. Lee, Marion Taylor,
Heather Weir, and Lissa M. Wray Beal.
Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture
throughout the ages, yet the standard history of biblical
interpretation includes few womens voices. To introduce readers to
this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation,
this volume analyzes forgotten works from the nineteenth century
written by womenincluding Christina Rossetti, Florence Nightingale,
and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among othersfrom various faith
backgrounds, countries, and social classes engaging contemporary
biblical scholarship. Due to their exclusion from the academy,
womens 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
authors contributions as well as to explore how her reading of the
text was shaped by her experience as a woman. The contributors are
Amanda Benckhuysen, Elizabeth Davis, Christiana de Groot, Rebecca
G. S. Idestrom, Donna Kerfoot, Bernon P. Lee, Marion Taylor,
Heather Weir, and Lissa M. Wray Beal.