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ABSTRACT
Holding up the Bible as a mirror of womanly virtue was one way in which women attempted to deflect the abuses of their male contemporaries, but they clearly saw something of themselves reflected in those biblical models in a way that seemed incongruous to their male observers. In this paper I will argue that women were not simply configured by the biblical models presented to them as paragons of virtue, they reconfigured themselves according to their own, individual, readings of the Scriptures, readings that subsequently manifested themselves in material ranging from privately annotated books to published responses to misogynistic texts such as The Arraignment of Women.
Key words: Renaissance Women; Bible; Typology; Resistance Writing.