Hagar, Sarah, and Their Children: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives
Phyllis Tribleis University Professor of Biblical Studies at Wake Forest University Divinity School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is also Baldwin Professor Emerita of Sacred Literature at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is considered a leader in the text-based exploration of women and gender in Scripture, has lectured extensively in North America and abroad.Letty M. Russellwas one of the world's foremost feminist theologians and a longtime member of the faculty of Yale Divinity School. She died on July 12, 2007, at age 77. She was one of the first women ordained in the United Presbyterian Church and served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Ascension in East Harlem for ten years. She joined the faculty of Yale Divinity School in 1974 and retired in 2001. She wrote and edited numerous books, includingChurch in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church,Dictionary of Feminist Theologies(with J. Shannon Clarkson),andInheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective(with Kwok Pui Lan, Ada Maria Isasi Dias, and Katie Cannon).