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This volume gathers the writings of thirty-five nineteenth-century
women on the stories of women in Joshua and Judges. Recovering and
analyzing neglected works by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, and many others, Women of War, Women of Woe
illuminates the biblical text, recovers a neglected chapter of
reception history, and helps us understand and apply Scripture in
our present context. The stories of Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Delilah,
Manoah's wife, Achsah, Jephthah's daughter, and the Levite's
concubine raised thorny questions for these female biblical
interpreters - questions that they addressed candidly in their
writings. Could a Victorian woman use her intelligence to negotiate
like Rahab? Was the seemingly well-educated Deborah an appropriate
role model? Or did Jephthah's daughter more correctly model a pious
woman's life as she meekly submitted to the will of her
sword-wielding father? The voices collected in this book offer
thoughtful reflection on and responses to these questions and more.
Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture
throughout the ages, yet the standard history of biblical
interpretation includes few women's 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 women-including Christina Rossetti, 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. 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.
Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical
Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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