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Phyllis Trible (1932-2025) Feminist Biblical scholar. Phyllis Trible was born in Richmond, Virginia, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Phyllis Lou Trible

Locations

New York•Westchester

Author's Timeline

1932

Birth

Phyllis Lou Trible was born in Richmond, Virginia, on October 25, 1932.

Early 1960s

Other Life Event

Westchester County: Ms. Trible taught at the Masters School, in Dobbs Ferry, New York, while working on her doctoral degree in the early 1960s.

1963

Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Trible received her doctoral degree in Old Testament studies from Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, New York, in 1963.

1978

Literary work

God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality
Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press
Nonfiction.

1979-1998

Other Life Event

New York County: Ms. Trible was a professor of sacred literature at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, New York, from 1979 to 1998.

1984

Literary Work

Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press
0800615379 / 978-0800615376
Nonfiction.

1995

Literary Work

Rhetorical Criticism: Context, Method, and the Book of Jonah
Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press
Nonfiction.

2006

Literary Work

Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
Philadelphia, PA: Presbyterian Publishing Corporation
0664229824 / 978-0664229825
Nonfiction edited by Phyllis Trible and Letty M. Russell.

2025

Death

New York County: Phyllis Trible died in a hospital in Manhattan, New York, on October 17, 2025.

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