Role Of Sexism In Hebrew Trible

Trible has three points of argument that explain, counter, and address sexism in the Hebrew bible. Her first argument addressing sexism brings into question the use of language. Pieces from Isaiah Genesis, Psalm, and Jon that distinctly uses gendered (if not obvious) language to speak of Yahweh: God was a midwife, seamstress, housekeeper, nurse, mother” (Trible, 1973), a caretaker, which Trible points out are all feminize images used to describe God and what he did for his people, in the words of the Old Testament. She also argues that a masculine God was a societal formality rooted in an inaccurate imaginative portrayal of God. This masculinized interpretation is, to Trible, “misleading and detrimental” because of how inaccurate that view