Background
Phyllis Trible was born on October 25, 1932 in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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Phyllis Trible was born on October 25, 1932 in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
Phyllis Trible received her Bachelor of Arts at Meredith College in 1954, then pursued post-graduate studies at Union Theological Seminary in 1956, and later acquired a joint Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1963 with an emphasis in Biblical Studies.
Phyllis Trible began her career as a teacher at Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1960-1963. She then taught at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from 1963 to 1971 and at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1979, before going back to Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1979, where she was appointed the Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature in 1981.
Trible also lectured at numerous colleges and universities worldwide and was a visiting professor at Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan; University of Virginia; Boston University; Vancouver School of Theology; Brown University; Saint John’s University; University of Notre Dame; and lliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado.
Phyllis Trible left Union Theological Seminary in 1998 to become associate dean and professor of Biblical studies of the new Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She 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.
In addition, Phyllis Trible authored a number of books, including "God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality", "Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives" and "Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah". She has written numerous articles and book reviews for magazines and scholarly journals, as well. In 1998 Trible donated her papers to Burke Library's Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship in 1998, and added more papers subsequently; the papers formed the foundation of the collection.
Besides, she participated in the Smithsonian Institution’s Feminist Interpretation of the Bible symposium (1994) and provided expert commentary on Bill Moyers’s public television series "Genesis: A Living Conversation" (1996).
Trible’s academic honours include Doctor of Divinity degrees from Franklin College in 1985, Lehigh University in 1994, and Wake Forest University in 1997, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Meredith College in 2001.
Besides, Trible was the inaugural recipient of the Meredith College Woman of Achievement Award in 2007. She also received Union’s Unitas Award in 2009, honouring graduates who have distinguished themselves in the church, academy, and society nationwide and around the world.
(Focusing on texts in the Hebrew Bible, and using feminist...)
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2014(In different ways, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all t...)
2006(Professor Trible focuses on four variations upon the them...)
1984While at Union Theological Seminary, Trible wrote her dissertation 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.
Athalya Brenner calls Phyllis Trible one of the "prominent matriarchs of contemporary feminist bible criticism". According to John J. Collins, Phyllis Trible, more than any other scholar, put feminist criticism on the agenda of biblical scholarship in the 1970s.
Trible served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1994 and was also a member of the American Academy of Religion. Besides, Trible is a charter member of the National Women’s History Museum.
