Breaking boundaries
Subtitle: female biblical interpreters who challenged the status quo
By: edited by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather Weir.
Contributors: Koyzis, Nancy Calvert.; Weir, Heather E.
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- #524
Publisher: T & T Clark International
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780567595034
Subjects: Bible -- Feminist criticism; Bible and feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Boundaries broken, voices heard / Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Heather E. Weir; title: Retelling and misreading Jesus : Eudocia's Homeric cento / Brian Sowers; title: Vindicating womankind :Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum / Caryn reeder; title: Reading nature before reading the Bible : Sarah Trimmer's Natural theology / Heather E. Weir; title: Eliza Smith's The battles of the Bible : biblical interpretation in service of a Christian social agenda in nineteenth-century urban Scotland / Bernon Lee; title: 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; title: Ready to sacrifice all : the repentant Magdalene in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; title: Olympia Brown : reading the Bible as a universalist minister and pragmatic suffragist / Beth Bidlack; title: Leaving Eden : resurrecting the work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr / Kristin Kobes du Mez; title: Elizabeth Mary MacDonald : an early Canadian contribution to the study of women in the ancient Near East / Rebecca G.S. Idestrom; title: Harriet Beecher Stowe's interpretation of the Virgin Mary : the significance of maternal ideology for home and society / Nancy Calvert-Koyzis.