Season 11: Episode 6 | Marion Taylor | How Did Women Since 320 AD Interpret the Bible?

Listen to Dr. Marion Taylor, a best-selling author, Professor of Old Testament and Graduate Director at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, being interviewed by seasoned journalist Lorna Dueck. In this episode, Dr. Marion Taylor discusses the books she has written, her research and the discovery of the many women who interpreted Scripture and helped to influence generations with God’s Word.

In this episode, Marion and Lorna discuss:

• Dr. Marion Taylor's books and research in discovering the influence of women interpreting Scripture, from as early as the year 320.
• How a biblical interpreter is defined as anyone who engages Scripture through letters, poetry, art, or other creative expression.
• The impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was a Biblical Interpreter that used novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin to preach and teach Biblical truth beyond the pulpit.
• Forgotten women writers who have been revealed through the years and the research journey that uncovered diaries, commentaries, and Scriptural interpretations long buried in archives.
• Courageous interpreters of the Reformation like Katarina Zell who boldly defended clergy marriage, wrote pastoral letters, and ministered side by side with their husbands.
• Florence Nightingale’s annotated Bible and how it reveals how she wrestled with faith, science, and Scripture in her private notes.
• Henrietta Mears’ 20th-century influence and how she helped shape Billy Graham and a whole generation of leaders.
• Powerful lessons for women today found by learning about the foremothers of faith who empower and challenge narrow narratives about women’s roles.
• Passing faith to our children in the home and using Scripture through song, story, and family life.

Read the transcript: biblesociety.ca/transcript-scripture-untangled-s11-ep6

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PhD (Yale)BA (Toronto), MA (Toronto), MDiv (Knox/Toronto), STM, MPhil

Marion Taylor grew up in Toronto and began her academic studies at the University of Toronto. Questions about how to negotiate the worlds of faith and the academic study of the Bible pushed her to pursue an MA in Near Eastern Studies and a Master of Divinity degree. Ultimately her journey took her to Yale University, where her interest in the history of the interpretation of the Bible was solidified. Under the direction of Brevard Childs, she wrote her doctoral thesis on the history of Old Testament studies as they developed at Princeton Seminary from 1812 to 1929.

At Yale in a class on apocalyptic literature, Marion met her husband Glen. Glen was from Calgary, but they returned to Toronto to teach at Wycliffe College. With Glen as residence dean, they lived at the College while raising three children and continuing to teach.

Marion’s interests in the Old Testament are broad. She teaches a variety of courses, including Introduction to the Old Testament, Jeremiah, Psalms, Old Testament Theology, Reading Scripture through the Ages, Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Bible, the Books of Esther and Ruth, and Women Interpreters of the Bible. Most recently she has focused on forgotten women interpreters of the Bible.

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