Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, notebooks, manuscripts, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth together with the old Testament”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“He overlooks the fact that God obliged the Israelites to wander forty years as a punishment _ If he can believe that God fed them daily with manna from heaven why can he not believe this also And why suspect Joshua and Caleb of such a crime rather than believe The tradition… the Deity of those books with all his terrible magnificence is a Moloch in our eyes… in believing the New Testament I must receive the Old”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Michaelis -”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Notebook, January 1835. Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.
“You were quite right about Eichhorn— I have passed over that part of the first volume which discusses the state of the text, different manuscripts &c.”
“Soon I shall have finished these vols of Eichhorn and trouble you for more.”
“I take the satisfaction I expected in the study of the Old Testament. I am gradually creating a new world out of the chaos of old, confused and inaccurate impressions”
“Will it be too much trouble to send the remainder of Eichhorn to my uncle Henry's?— My father would bring it me the latter part of next week.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“My next favorite plan is a series of tales illustrative of Hebrew history. The proper junctures have occurred to me during my late studies on the historical books of the Old Testament.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Eichhorn's Introduction to the Old Testament. Extract / From the preface to the second edition.”
“Chapter 1st / General Reflections on Hebrew Literature. […] 32d / Philo never mentions Nehemiah. Ruth / Esther, Chronicles, Daniel, Jeremiah. the / Preacher or Solomon's song. […] Exodus.”
Inferred Fuller engages with the Old Testament throughout the notebook as the subject of Eichhorn's analysis; she discusses Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther individually by name and quotes from them via Eichhorn.
Cataloged as one composite row for the Hebrew Bible; individual books are named in notes.
“Uber diesen Schleger hebt, soll Wahrheit schauen / Sey hinter ihm was will. Ich heb' ihn auf =”
Inferred Ich heb' ihn auf') matches the key lines of Schiller's ballad 'Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais' (1795): the youth declares he will lift the veil to behold Truth. Fuller uses two lines from Schiller as the epigraph for this notebook. The lines correspond to the climactic moment in Schiller's ballad 'Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais' (The Veiled Image at Sais), first published in Die Horen, 9.
'Schleger' is a transcription variant of 'Schleier' (veil). Ich heb' ihn auf' — 'Schleger' is certainly a transcription of 'Schleier' (veil).
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.
“Then I was with Abraham on the plains of Mamre, this was a dream worth noting I never even thought of the situation before.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Dreams and Sorrow." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box 3, Folder 132.
Inferred She notes it as 'a dream worth noting' and says it gave her 'the greatest refreshment I have had this dreadful month.' Author anonymous (biblical tradition, Old Testament); title inferred from context.
“I believe in the genesis, as given in the Old Testament.”
Fuller, Margaret. "A Credo." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 2, Folder: 97.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Illinois will yet, I hope, regard this man, who knew so well what ought to be, as one of her true patriarchs, the Abraham of a promised land.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“avoid all share in embittering, by insult or unfeeling prejudice, the captivity of Israel.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
“even they greeted, with solemn rapture, all great and holy women as heroines, prophetesses, judges in Israel”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Fuller alludes to Old Testament women leaders: prophetesses (Miriam, Huldah), judges (Deborah), and other heroines of Israel. She does not name a specific book or figure but the allusion is clearly to Old Testament tradition.
“Hast thou forgotten any of these things, hast thou ceased to cherish me, O Israel!”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Why hast thou deceived me ? for thou art Saul. [...] Jeremiah in prison dictating to Baruch. [...] Miriam. [...] the song of deliverance.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Inferred She quotes directly from 1 Samuel 28:12 ('Why hast thou deceived me?