Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide

Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide

by Marion Ann Taylor (Editor)
Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide

Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide

by Marion Ann Taylor (Editor)

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Overview

Word Guild 2012 Canadian Christian Writing Award

Honorable Mention, The Grace Irwin Prize (2013)

2012 Book of the Year Award,
Foreword Magazine

The history of women interpreters of the Bible is a neglected area of study. Marion Taylor presents a one-volume reference tool that introduces readers to a wide array of women interpreters of the Bible from the entire history of Christianity. Her research has implications for understanding biblical interpretation—especially the history of interpretation—and influencing contemporary study of women and the Bible. Contributions by 130 top scholars introduce foremothers of the faith who address issues of interpretation that continue to be relevant to faith communities today, such as women's roles in the church and synagogue and the idea of religious feminism. Women's interpretations also raise awareness about differences in the ways women and men may read the Scriptures in light of differences in their life experiences.

This handbook will prove useful to ministers as well as to students of the Bible, who will be inspired, provoked, and challenged by the women introduced here. The volume will also provide a foundation for further detailed research and analysis.

Interpreters include Elizabeth Rice Achtemeier, Saint Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine Mumford Booth, Anne Bradstreet, Catherine of Siena, Clare of Assisi, Egeria, Elizabeth I, Hildegard, Julian of Norwich, Thérèse of Lisieux, Marcella, Henrietta C. Mears, Florence Nightingale, Phoebe Palmer, Faltonia Betitia Proba, Pandita Ramabai, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Dorothy Leigh Sayers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, St. Teresa of Avila, Sojourner Truth, and Susanna Wesley.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441238672
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/01/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 608
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Marion Ann Taylor (PhD, Yale University) is professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, where she has taught for more than twenty-five years. She has devoted her scholarly research to the history of the interpretation of the Bible and has recently focused on women interpreters of the Bible in the nineteenth century. She is coeditor of Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible. Agnes Choi (PhD, University of St. Michael's College) is assistant professor of New Testament at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.

Table of Contents

Preface Marion Ann Taylor ix

List of Contributors xi

Introduction Marion Ann Taylor 1

Handbook Entries 23

List of Entries 553

Chronological List of Women Biblical Interpreters 557

Subject Index 563

Scripture Index 579

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