Phyliss Trible’s article on Depatriarchalizing in Biblical Interpretation discusses how the Hebrew Scriptures and the Women’s movement are related. It is argued that the way the Bible is translated makes it patriarchal. The article gives several examples of how the Bible condemns women. Paul considers women subordinate to men, and I Timothy states that women are responsible for sin in the world. This is an interesting to me because I had not read the Bible much before this class. After reading certain sections of the Bible, I noticed how sexist the Bible was. It is interesting to consider the possibility that this is not so much the Bible that is sexist, but the interpretation that is sexist. The people who would have been responsible for translating this document could have used their own bias to do so, resulting in a patriarchal Bible that we have read today.
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