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If The Bible’s So Patriarchal, How Come I Love It?

Can women serve two authorities, a master called Scripture and a mistress called feminism?

By Phyllis Trible

Early in the 1970s, I listened to animated discussions about feminism. I did not have to be converted. At the same time, I also understood that Scripture nourished my life, that the Bible I grew up with in Sunday school continued to feed me. To be sure, I had learned in college and graduate school that Scripture differs from what the church taught about it, but never did critical scholarship diminish my love for the Bible. There is power in the document, and it need not work adversely for women or for men. This I knew and this […]

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Footnotes

1.

YHWH is the personal name of the Hebrew God, often spelled Yahweh, although we do not know how it was pronounced. The four-letter consonantal form is known as the tetragrammaton.

2.

See Phyllis Trible, “Bringing Miriam out of the Shadows,” BR 05:01.

Endnotes

1.

See Phyllis Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978); reviewed in Books in Brief, BAR 09:01.

2.

See Trible, Texts of Terror (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984); reviewed in Bible Books, BR 01:01.