Feminist rhetorical hermeneutics in understanding the sacred text from the perspective of Phyllis Trible

Sharif, Zahra

doi:10.30497/prr.2026.248149.2008

Feminist rhetorical hermeneutics in understanding the sacred text from the perspective of Phyllis Trible

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Document Type : Original Research

Author

Zahra Sharif

Faculty Member/ Women and Family Research Institute, Theoretical Studies Gender Group/ Qom. Iran

10.30497/prr.2026.248149.2008

Abstract

Feminist theology, as a critical approach to theology, presents its theological perspective on women, depending on the angle from which it criticizes and revises traditional theology. Feminist hermeneutics recognizes the sacred text on the one hand and expands or narrows its range of understanding on the other. Phyllis Trible, a feminist scholar of sacred texts, believes that a rhetorical approach to sacred texts can inspire women and provide the basis for reconstructing the theology of a sacred text. In her view, the sacred text interprets itself and, in this development, has an internal hermeneutics that allows for multiple possibilities of reading. Which of the meanings the interpreter adopts to achieve a coherent understanding of the sacred text can be identified through clues that exist in the sacred text itself. His clues are metaphors, stories, imagery, and important themes of the sacred text, which must be referenced to free oneself from the internal contradiction of the text.

Keywords

Sacred Text

Hermeneutics

Treble

Feminism

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