Hebrew Bible Scholar to Give Annual Women in Church and Ministry Lecture
—Monday, February 12 lecture titled “Sexualizing Biblical Women in Art”—

Princeton, NJ, January 9, 2007–Dr. Gale A. Yee, professor of Hebrew Bible at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will give the annual Women in Church and Ministry Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary on Monday, February 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Stuart Hall, Room 6 on the Seminary campus.

Prior to coming to the Episcopal Divinity School in 1998, Yee spent fourteen years teaching Hebrew Bible in the Theology Department at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. In addition, she directed women’s studies at the University of St. Thomas from 1992–1997, and spent 2003–2004 as a visiting professor in the Department of Religion of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Yee received her B.A. in English Literature at Loyola University of Chicago in 1973, her M.A. in theology/New Testament at Loyola in 1975, and her Ph.D. in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology, in 1984.

She is the author of Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 2003); Jewish Feasts and the Gospel of John (Zacchaeus Studies, Michael Glazier, Inc., 1989); Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea: A Redaction Critical Investigation (SBLOT Dissertation Series 102, Scholars Press, 1987); and a commentary on the Book of Hosea (The New Interpreters Bible, Volume VIII, Abingdon Press, 1996, pp. 195–297). She is currently writing Class Acts: Marginalization in Ancient Israel (Westminster John Knox Press, Library of Ancient Israel Series), and is also the author of numerous scholarly articles.

Yee is past president of the Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium, and former chair of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession for the Society of Biblical Literature. She is also a faculty advisor for Pacific Asian, North American Asian Women in Theology and Ministry. 

The Women in Church and Ministry Lecture is sponsored annually by Princeton Theological Seminary’s Women in Church and Ministry Committee.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Its first woman graduate to receive a professional degree for ministry was Muriel von Orden Jennings, who graduated in 1932. There are currently 322 women students enrolled. Princeton is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with 704 students in seven graduate degree programs. For more information, contact the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760 or visit www.ptsem.edu.