Skilled,
Colorful Exegesis
Following her graduation, Briggs continued to take courses at Union
with her father, Charles A. Briggs. She also took a job teaching New
Testament, Greek, and Hebrew at the New York School for Deaconesses.
Her real passion, though, was for textual exegesis. She filled numerous
notebooks of textual study, filled with word studies and alternate
spellings/sayings, as well as historical interpretations. She additionally
kept clippings with biblical references or poetry in separate books
with daily prayers and family birthdays; she exegeted her clippings
as well. Briggs knew at least six languages -- English, German, French,
Greek, Hebrew, and Latin -- and could move between them with relative
ease. Much of her work also is an attempt to continue her father's
exegesis and commentary on Lamentations and her brother Alanson's
work in Song of Songs. |
