Dr. Peggy Day

Title: Professor Emerita
Email: p.day@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Dr. Peggy L. Day is a Professor Emerita who retired in 2023 after 34 years on the Religion and Culture faculty. Her PhD (Harvard University, 1986) is in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and she taught primarily in the field of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament during her career at the University of Winnipeg. Her research focused on ancient Near Eastern mythology, the use of figurative language in the Hebrew Bible prophets, the decipherment of Ugaritic and the distinctions between feminist theological and feminist historical scholarship. She was the Department Chair from 1995-2010. She is currently a University of Winnipeg Senior Scholar, researching the World War II Japanese POW and Internment camp at Batu Lintang, which was located in present day Kuching, Malaysian Borneo. She is an inveterate traveler, community gardener and cat person. She is very tired of snow.

Teaching Areas:

Hebrew Bible; History of Ancient Israel; Modern Biblical Interpretation; Women in Ancient Israel; Myth, Legend and Folktale; Biblical Hebrew language.

Publications:

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“’Until I Come and Take You Away to a Land Like Your Own’ A Gendered Look at Siege Warfare and Mass Deportation,” Stephanie Budin and Jean Turfa (eds.) Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 2016, 521-32.

“Deity: Hebrew Bible,” Julia O’Brien et al. (eds.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, vol. 1, 74-80.

“Hebrew Bible Goddesses and Modern Feminist Scholarship,” Religion Compass 6 (2012), 298-308. Online journal access at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2012.00356.x/abstract

"A Prostitute Unlike Women: Whoring as Metaphoric Vehicle for Foreign Alliances," Brad Kelle and Megan Moore (eds.), in Israel's Prophets and Israel's Past: Essays on the Relationship of Prophetic Texts and Israelite History in Honor of John H. Hayes. New York: T and T Clarke, 2006, 164-70.

“Dies Diem Docet: The Decipherment of Ugaritic,” Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici 19 (2002) 37-57.

“Ugaritic,” S. McKenzie and J. Kaltner (eds.), Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages.  Atlanta: SBL, 2002, 223-41.

“Adulterous Jerusalem’s Imagined Demise: Death of a Metaphor in Ezekiel 16,” Vetus Testamentum 50 (2000) 285-309.

“The Personification of Cities as Female in the Hebrew Bible,” M. Tolbert & F. Segovia (eds.), Reading From This Place, vol. 2: Social Location & Biblical Interpretation in Global Perspective.  Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995, 283-302.

“Anat: Ugarit’s ‘Mistress of Animals’,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 51 (1992), 181-90.

 Editor, Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel, Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989, and author of its “Introduction,” pp. 1-11 and “From the Child is Born the Woman: The Story of Jephthah’s Daughter,” pp. 58-74.

An Adversary in Heaven: śātān in the Hebrew Bible.  Harvard Semitic Monographs 43; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.