Produced by Carrie Lorenz and John B. Hare
Comments on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
"In every soul there is bound up some truth and some error, and eachgives to the world of thought what no other one possesses."—Cousin.
1898.
By
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"We took sweet counsel together."—Ps. Iv., 14.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Lillie Devereux Blake,
Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford,
Matilda Joslyn Gage,
Clara Bewick Colby,
Rev. Olympia Brown,
Rev. Augusta Chapin,
Frances Ellen Burr,
Ursula N. Gestefeld,
Clara B. Neyman,
Mary Seymour Howell,
Helen H. Gardener,
Josephine K. Henry,
Charlotte Beebe: Wilbour,
Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll,
Lucinda B. Chandler,
Sarah A. Underwood,
Catharine F. Stebbins,
Ellen Battelle Dietrick,[FN#1]
Louisa Southworth.
[FN#1] Deceased.
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg, Finland,
Ursula M. Bright, England,
Irma Von Troll-Borostyant, Austria,
Priscilla Bright Mclaren, Scotland,
Isabelle Bogelot, France
By
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Lillie Devereux Blake,
Rev. Phebe Hanaford,
Clara Bewick Colby,
Ellen Battelle Dietrick,
Ursula N. Gestefeld,
Mrs. Louisa Southworth,
Frances Ellen Burr.
So many letters are daily received asking questions about the Woman'sBible,—as to the extent of the revision, and the standpoint from whichit will be conducted—that it seems best, though every detail is not asyet matured, to state the plan, as concisely as possible, upon whichthose who have been in consultation during the summer, propose to dothe work.
I. The object is to revise only those texts and chapters directlyreferring to women, and those also in which women are made prominent byexclusion. As all such passages combined form but one-tenth of theScriptures, the undertaking will not be so laborious as, at the firstthought, one would imagine. These texts, with the commentaries, caneasily be compressed into a duodecimo volume of about four hundredpages.
II. The commentaries will be of a threefold character, the writers inthe different branches being selected according to their specialaptitude for the work:
1. Two or three Greek and Hebrew scholars will devote themselves tothe translation and the meaning of particular words and texts in theoriginal.
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