Phyllis Trible

Phyllis Trible is a Baldwin Professor Emerita of Sacred Literature at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was formerly the Associate Dean and Professor of Biblical Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. She served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1994, the second woman to serve in that capacity since the organization was founded in 1880. Her most famous books are God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Fortress, 1978) and Texts of Terror (Fortress, 1984).