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Chapter 1 - Scripturally Annotated: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2024

Brenda Ayres
Affiliation:
Liberty University, Virginia
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What follows is a copy of the first edition (1792) of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published by Joseph Johnson. The only changes in this copy to the original were the replacing of double quotation for single quotation marks around quotes, replac-ing a modern “s” for the long “s,” adding notations, and formatting. Inconsistent spellings and punctuation and grammatical errors have remained untouched. The purpose of reproducing this edition was not to edit it but to identify in the original edition its biblical rhetoric, moral undergirding, quotes, concepts, and references. Wollstonecraft’s notes have been removed as well since none of them are relevant to this biblical study. All biblical references are from the King James Bible (KJB), the 1769 version edited by Benjamin Blayney and published by Oxford University Press. Since this was considered “our Authorized version” in 1792, it was most likely the version that Wollstonecraft read. It included the Apocrypha, fourteen books that are in the Vulgate, but Jerome declared them not to be Scripture Legitimate. The controversy about its inclusion as being too “Catholic” for Protestant tastes was already festering and but would not be eliminated until 1826. Given Wollstonecraft’s anti-Catholic stance, none of the citations below will come from the Apocrypha, with the assumption that Wollstonecraft would not have read these books and would not have considered them canonical.

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Publisher: Anthem Press
Print publication year: 2024

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