Heather Weir, Th.D., (2008), Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, is an instructor at Wycliffe. She co-edited Let Her speak for Herself: Nineteenth Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006). Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Ph.D. (1993), University of Sheffield, teaches part time at the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Her publications include Paul, Monotheism and the People of God: The Significance of Abraham for Early Jewish and Christian Identity (T&T Clark/Continuum: 2004).

The business of recovering women interpreters of biblical texts is still in its early stages of research, and the field owes a deep debt of gratitude to these intrepid investigators and their collaborators who have contributed to Breaking Boundaries... The editors appear to have asked writers to be particularly careful to establish the intellectual and socio-cultural context of each of the women considered, and in the best of the articles this contextualization lends a fascinating light on the hermeneutical issues involved in the particular interpreter's work.

• CONTENTS; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Boundaries Broken, Voices Heard Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Heather E. Weir; 2. Retelling and Misreading Jesus: Eudocia's Homeric Cento Brian Sowers; 3. Vindicating Womankind: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; Caryn Reeder; 4. Reading Nature Before Reading the Bible: Sarah Trimmer's Natural Theology Heather E. Weir; 5. Eliza Smith's The Battles of the Bible: Biblical Interpretation in Service of a Christian Social Agenda in Nineteenth-Century Urban Scotland; Bernon Lee; 6. "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; 7. Ready to Sacrifice All: The Repentant Magdalene in the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; 8. Olympia Brown: Reading the Bible as a Universalist Minister and Pragmatic Suffragist; Beth Bidlack; 9. Leaving Eden: Resurrecting the Work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr; Kristin Kobes Du Mez; 10. Elizabeth Mary MacDonald: An Early Canadian Contribution to the Study of Women in the Ancient Near East; Rebecca G. S. Idestrom; 11. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Interpretation of the Virgin Mary: The Significance of Maternal Ideology for Home and Society; Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; Index.

Heather Weir, Th.D., (2008), Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, is an instructor at Wycliffe. She co-edited Let Her speak for Herself: Nineteenth Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006). Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Ph.D. (1993), University of Sheffield, teaches part time at the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Her publications include Paul, Monotheism and the People of God: The Significance of Abraham for Early Jewish and Christian Identity (T&T Clark/Continuum: 2004).

The business of recovering women interpreters of biblical texts is still in its early stages of research, and the field owes a deep debt of gratitude to these intrepid investigators and their collaborators who have contributed to Breaking Boundaries... The editors appear to have asked writers to be particularly careful to establish the intellectual and socio-cultural context of each of the women considered, and in the best of the articles this contextualization lends a fascinating light on the hermeneutical issues involved in the particular interpreter's work.

• CONTENTS; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Boundaries Broken, Voices Heard Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Heather E. Weir; 2. Retelling and Misreading Jesus: Eudocia's Homeric Cento Brian Sowers; 3. Vindicating Womankind: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; Caryn Reeder; 4. Reading Nature Before Reading the Bible: Sarah Trimmer's Natural Theology Heather E. Weir; 5. Eliza Smith's The Battles of the Bible: Biblical Interpretation in Service of a Christian Social Agenda in Nineteenth-Century Urban Scotland; Bernon Lee; 6. "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; 7. Ready to Sacrifice All: The Repentant Magdalene in the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; 8. Olympia Brown: Reading the Bible as a Universalist Minister and Pragmatic Suffragist; Beth Bidlack; 9. Leaving Eden: Resurrecting the Work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr; Kristin Kobes Du Mez; 10. Elizabeth Mary MacDonald: An Early Canadian Contribution to the Study of Women in the Ancient Near East; Rebecca G. S. Idestrom; 11. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Interpretation of the Virgin Mary: The Significance of Maternal Ideology for Home and Society; Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; Index.

Heather Weir, Th.D., (2008), Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, is an instructor at Wycliffe. She co-edited Let Her speak for Herself: Nineteenth Century Women Writing on Women in Genesis (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006). Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Ph.D. (1993), University of Sheffield, teaches part time at the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Her publications include Paul, Monotheism and the People of God: The Significance of Abraham for Early Jewish and Christian Identity (T&T Clark/Continuum: 2004).

The business of recovering women interpreters of biblical texts is still in its early stages of research, and the field owes a deep debt of gratitude to these intrepid investigators and their collaborators who have contributed to Breaking Boundaries... The editors appear to have asked writers to be particularly careful to establish the intellectual and socio-cultural context of each of the women considered, and in the best of the articles this contextualization lends a fascinating light on the hermeneutical issues involved in the particular interpreter's work.

• CONTENTS; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Boundaries Broken, Voices Heard Nancy Calvert-Koyzis, Heather E. Weir; 2. Retelling and Misreading Jesus: Eudocia's Homeric Cento Brian Sowers; 3. Vindicating Womankind: Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; Caryn Reeder; 4. Reading Nature Before Reading the Bible: Sarah Trimmer's Natural Theology Heather E. Weir; 5. Eliza Smith's The Battles of the Bible: Biblical Interpretation in Service of a Christian Social Agenda in Nineteenth-Century Urban Scotland; Bernon Lee; 6. "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; 7. Ready to Sacrifice All: The Repentant Magdalene in the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe; Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; 8. Olympia Brown: Reading the Bible as a Universalist Minister and Pragmatic Suffragist; Beth Bidlack; 9. Leaving Eden: Resurrecting the Work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr; Kristin Kobes Du Mez; 10. Elizabeth Mary MacDonald: An Early Canadian Contribution to the Study of Women in the Ancient Near East; Rebecca G. S. Idestrom; 11. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Interpretation of the Virgin Mary: The Significance of Maternal Ideology for Home and Society; Nancy Calvert-Koyzis; Index.