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Breaking boundaries : female biblical interpreters who challenged the status quo /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Calvert-Koyzis, Nancy, Weir, Heather E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : T & T Clark, ©2010.
Colección:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 524.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.