Breaking boundaries :

Breaking boundaries : female biblical interpreters who challenged the status quo / edited by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis and Heather Weir. - New York, N.Y. : T & T Clark, c2010. - vi, 214 p. ; 25 cm. - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 524 T & T Clark library of biblical studies . - Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 524. T & T Clark library of biblical studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : boundaries broken, voices heard / Retelling and misreading Jesus : Eudocia's Homeric cento / Vindicating womankind : Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum / Reading nature before reading the Bible : Sarah Trimmer's natural theology / Eliza Smith's The battles of the Bible : biblical interpretation in service of a Christian social agenda in nineteenth-century urban Scotland / "Miss Greswell honed our Hebrew at Oxford" : reflections on Joana J. Greswell and her book Grammatical analysis of the Hebrew Psalter (1873) / Harriet Beecher Stowe's interpretation of the Virgin Mary : the significance of maternal ideology for home and society / Olympia Brown : reading the Bible as a Universalist minister and pragmatic suffragist / Leaving Eden : resurrecting the work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr / Elizabeth Mary MacDonald : an early Canadian contribution to the study of women in the ancient Near East / Ready to sacrifice all : the repentant Magdalene in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe / Heather E. Weir and Nancy Calvert-Koyzis -- Brian Sowers -- Caryn A. Reeder -- Heather E. Weir -- Bernon Lee -- J. Glen Taylor -- Nancy Calvert-Koyzis -- Beth Bidlack -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez -- Rebecca G.S. Idestrom -- Nancy Calvert-Koyzis.

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Bible--Feminist criticism.


Bible and feminism.

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