A Scripture of Their Own: Nineteenth-Century Bible Biography and Feminist Bible Criticism

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Charles Elizabeth Rundle . Ecce Ancilla Dominie: Mary the Mother of Our Lord, Studies in the Christian Ideal of Womanhood. London: SPCK, 1894.

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Daly Mary . Beyond God the Father: Towards a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1973.

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Evans Robert Wilson . Scripture Biography. 3 series. London: 1834, 1835, 1848.

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Fiorenza Elisabeth Schüssler . “Interpreting Patriarchal Traditions.” The Liberating Word: A Guide to Non-Sexist Interpretation of the Bible. Ed. Russell Letty M. , Philadelphia: Westminster, 1976. 58–70.

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Wesley John . Explanatory Notes on the Old Testament. 3 vols. Bristol: William Pine, 1763.