Phyllis Bird | |
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Born | 1934 (age 89–90) |
Other names | Phyllis Ann Bird |
Ecclesiastical career | |
Church | United Methodist Church |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | YRŠ and the Deuteronomic Theology of the Conquest (c. 1972) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biblical studies |
Sub-discipline | Old Testament studies |
School or tradition | Christian feminism |
Institutions |
Phyllis Ann Bird (born 1934) is an American feminist scholar in biblical hermeneutics.[2] She is Professor Emerita of Old Testament Interpretation at Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary and McCarthy Professor of Biblical Studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute.[3] Bird is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church,[3] and was one of the translators of the New Revised Standard Version.[4]