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Trible: A feminist outlook
Liberating the Scriptures
By Dan Coran
Of thu Emerald
Feminism is one of those topics that may
draw differences of opinion even before much is
said. Yet, according to Phyllis Trible, an
internationally-recognized authority on the role
of women in the Bible, feminism is an issue
which challenges contemporary society in critical
and far-reaching ways.
Trible, a professor of sacred literature at New
York's Union Theological Seminary, believes that
ancient Israel's male-dominated, patriarchal
society distorted and muted the true role of
women in biblical literature. This paternalistic at
titude has not only affected modern biblical inter
pretation, according to Trible, but has also af
fected other areas of modern culture.
Trible spoke on feminism and biblical faith
Tuesday and Wednesday at the University,
through the Department of Religious Studies' an
nual Distinguished Lecturer's Program.
“The patriarchal attitude is one of domina
tion and subordination,” Trible says. "In our
society, this manifests itself in such areas as
racism, exploitation of the earth and the macho
mentality of military development. Feminism is a
radical critique of this attitude.”
According to Trible. there have been several
approaches to feminist interpretation of biblical
literature. One points out instances in the Scrip
tures where the inferiority, subordination and ex
ploitation of women are evident. Trible says this
portrayal of women reflects, to a certain degree,
the culture of ancient Israel.
“From birth to death. Hebrew women
belonged to men,” Trible says. “Girls stayed
close to their mothers until their fathers released
them for marriage. Men expected to marry'
virgins, and a woman who was not a virgin at the
time of marriage violated the honor and power of
her father and husband. Such a person was put to
death by stoning.”
According to Trible, another avenue of
feminist interpretations of the Bible re-interprets
various biblical episodes from the viewpoint ol
the woman involved. One example is Trible’s in
terp rotation of the creation of man and woman in
the second chapter of Genesis.
“Adam’s identity as a male did not exist
before the creation of Eve," Trible says. "Human
sexual identity came into being simultaneously.
Eve was not created second to primal man, nor as
his helper, his servant or his subordinate. Man
does not control her, but moves toward her to
regain unity and wholeness.”
Re-interpreting biblical Scripture from a
feminist viewpoint is an effort to point out mean
ings already existing in the text, Trible says.
"The Bible is a rich, complex and diverse
book making interaction between writer and in
terpreter inevitable,” she says. "Like any true
work of literature, its meaning is often not fixed.
New occasions teach new duties, and we are com
pelled to look for meanings which save, liberate
and free."
"This doesn’t mean, however, that one can
make the Bible say anything one wants." Trible
cautions. "A good analogy is a score of music.
Though no two conductors produce the same
music from one score, the notes written down re
main fixed and unchanged."
Trible has published a number of articles on
women and the Bible including "Women in the
Old Testament" and "Depatriarchializing in
Biblical Interpretation." She is also author of the
books "God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality" and
"Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of
Biblical Narratives."
She would like to see her work as part of a
larger feminist effort within the church to create a
new cultural perspective.
“The work I’m doing hopefully brings peo
ple enlightenment and joy, and for now that's
enough. On another scale, though, it’s an effort to
help the church and society truly repent for the
sin of patriarchy — the sin of exploitation and
subordination. It’s a vision for a balanced
understanding of humanity, both male and
female.”
High-tech writer to speak
Lenny Siegel, director of the
Pacific Studies Center in Moun
tain View, Calif., will speak on
the environmental costs and ef
fects of high-tech industry
tonight at 7:30 in Room 150
Geology. The lecture is spon
sored by the EMU Cultural
Forum.
Tomorrow, Siegel will speak
rEMCI Cultural Forum
presents
Internationally known author and researcher
Mr. Lenny Siegel
Director of the Pacific Studies Center
Will give a lecture on the environmental
costs of the high tech industry.
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on the dangers of computeriza
tion at 3:30 p.m. in EMU Cen
tury Room A, in a lecture spon
sored by the University Arms
Control Forum. Both lectures
are free.
Called "the resident gadfly of
the Silicon Valley” by The New
York Times, Siegel is an
authority on the social,
economic, environmental and
military implications of high
technology.
Siegel’s articles have ap
peared in a number of
newspapers and national
magazines. He is the editor of
two periodicals: Pacific
Research and Global Electronics
Information Newsletter. As
director of the Pacific Studies
Center, Siegel has prepared
reports for Congress on the
background of California’s
Silicon Valley and has testified
before Congress on several
issues.
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