Phyllis Bird

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]

The Reverend Phyllis Bird
Born	1934 (age 90–91) Urbana, Illinois, US[1]
Other names	Phyllis Ann Bird
Ecclesiastical career
Church	United Methodist Church
Academic background
Alma mater	Union Theological Seminary Harvard University
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	Southern Methodist University Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary

Books

• Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel ISBN 9780800631284 OCLC 37310780
• The Bible as the Church's Book ISBN 9780664244279 OCLC 8430410

See also

• Historical criticism