Title: Women in the story of Jesus : the gospels through the eyes of nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters /
Authors: Taylor, Marion Ann,; Weir, Heather E.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bible. Feminist criticism.; Bible.; Women in the Bible; Feminist criticism; Women in the Bible.
Abstract: This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels — Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. The selected excerpts represent various literary genres, including commentaries, Scripture biographies, essays, travel diaries, children's lessons, and sermons. Retrieving and analyzing neglected works by Christina Rossetti, Sarah Hale, Elizabeth Wordsworth, and many other nineteenth-century writers, Women in the Story of Jesus illuminates the biblical text, recovers a neglected chapter of reception history, and helps us understand and apply Scripture in our present context. - back of book.
Contents: Part 1. Heart and hands: women's spirituality -- 1. Mary: the exemplary disciple -- Clara Lucas Balfour: humility: the noblest virtue -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: receiving the divine -- Sarah Trimmer: blessed humility -- Gracilla Boddington: worshipping with Mary -- Mary Anne SchimmelPennick: hail her as the woman -- Elizabeth Wordsworth: Cleopatra or Mary? -- Christina Georgina Rossetti: the veiled virgin -- Elizabeth Rundle Charles: communion and sacrifice -- 2. Mary and Martha of Bethany: spirituality in the workplace -- Esther Hewlett Copley: consecrated abilities -- Clara Lucas Balfour: action and contemplation -- Nina L. McFadyen: the happy home in Bethany -- Etty Woosnam: meddlesome Matty -- M. G.: work and devotion -- Mary Ann Smith: doing what we can -- Part 2. Unsealed lips: women preaching -- 3. Anna: the vocation of a woman preacher -- Sarah Hale: Anna's spiritual superiority -- Elizabeth Baxter: a role model for female ministry --^