Phyllis Trible was born on October 25,1932 and is a feminist biblical scholar from Richmond, Virginia, United States.
13 Facts About Phyllis Trible
1.
2.
Phyllis Trible has written a multitude of books on interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and has lectured around the world, including the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Canada, and a number of countries in Europe.
3.
Phyllis Trible wrote her doctoral dissertation at Union under James Muilenburg, who had generated a method of studying the Hebrew Bible based on form criticism that became known as rhetorical criticism, and whose approach Trible developed and applied throughout career, adding her own pioneering Christian feminist perspective to biblical scholarship.
4.
Phyllis Trible taught at Wake Forest University and Andover Newton Theological School before returning to Union Seminary, where she was appointed the Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature in 1980.
5.
Phyllis Trible left Union in 1998 to become Associate Dean and Professor of Biblical Studies of the then-new Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
6.
Phyllis Trible served in those roles until 2001, when she was appointed University Professor at Wake Forest, and served in that role until she retired in 2012.
7.
Phyllis Trible served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1994.
8.
In 1998, Phyllis Trible donated her papers to The Burke Library's Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship at Columbia University; her papers formed the foundation of the collection.
9.
In recent years, Phyllis Trible has served as a Visiting Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
10.
Phyllis Trible's work is based on rhetorical criticism, examining the interpretation of biblical texts.
11.
Phyllis Trible is known for her analysis of biblical narratives, particularly with regard to gender.
12.
Phyllis Trible writes that the Bible, when read against the contemporary patriarchal context, can be liberating for women.
13.
Dianne Bergant said that Phyllis Trible's readings come from a contemporary point of view, and that the idea of an androgynous Adam seeks to solve gender parity, and does not actually look at what is written in the text.