ABSTRACT
Phyllis Trible’s contribution to feminist interpretation goes beyond God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality. Trible employs the same perspective and the same literary methodology as she does in God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality; however, there is a profound difference in the aims of Texts of Terror. An account of Trible’s methodological approach in Texts of Terror would not be complete without reference to the story which she identifies as paradigmatic for encountering terror. Whilst the practice of Trible’s method has been exemplified with respect to just one ‘text of terror’, it is illuminating to case the net more widely the better to discern just how her hermeneutic relates past and present. Trible’s literary interpretation can therefore encompass a more nuanced perspective then simply demonstrating the perfidious manner in which women are used and abused in the Hebrew Bible.
