Gale A. Yee

Gale A. Yee (Chinese: 余蓮秀; pinyin: Yú Liánxiù; born 1949) is an American scholar of the Hebrew Bible. Her primary emphases are postcolonial criticism, ideological criticism, and cultural criticism. She applies feminist frameworks to biblical texts. An American of Chinese descent, she has written frequently on biblical interpretation from an Asian-American perspective.

Gale A. Yee
余蓮秀
Born	April 9, 1949 Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Academic background
Alma mater	Loyola University Chicago St. Michael's College, Toronto
Thesis	Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Anthony Ceresko
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies
Sub-discipline	Old Testament studies
School or tradition	Christian feminism Marxist feminism[1]
Institutions	University of St. Thomas Episcopal Divinity School

Early life and education

Yee was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 9, 1949. She attended the Academy of Our Lady High School, graduating in 1967.[2]

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1973 and a Master of Arts degree in the New Testament in 1975, both at Loyola University of Chicago. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985 in the Old Testament at the University of St. Michael's College in the Toronto School of Theology.[2]

Career

In 1987, Yee published her dissertation as Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea: A Redactional Critical Investigation with Scholars Press (Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 102).[3]

From 1998 until 2017, she was the Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School. From 1984 to 1998, she served as Professor of Hebrew Bible and Director of Women's Studies at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN). She is the former general editor of Semeia Studies. She and Athalya Brenner have worked together to edit commentaries in the Texts@Contexts series for Fortress Press.

On November 19, 2017, Yee was elected as Vice-President of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2018, leading to the position as President of the SBL in 2019. On November 24, 2019, she delivered the presidential address at the SBL Annual Meeting in 2019 in San Diego, California.

She has donated her papers (1966–2014) to the Burke Library (Columbia University Libraries) at Union Theological Seminary in New York.[2]

Honors

Yee was honored as a qianbei ("respected elder") at the 2014 International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars,[4] received the Graduate Theological Foundation's Krister Stendahl Medal in 2015,[5] and received the Society of Biblical Literature's "Status of Women in the Profession Committee Mentor Award" in 2016.[6] She received an honorary doctorate from Virginia Theological Seminary in 2020.[7]

Gale A. Yee was president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2019.

Works

Books

• Yee, Gale A. (1987). Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea: A Redaction Critical Investigation. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press. ISBN 978-1-55540-091-0.
• Yee, Gale A. (1995). Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-0-8006-2745-4.
• Yee, Gale A. (2003). Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-4514-0822-5.

Edited

• The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives (with Athalya Brenner and Archie C. C. Lee), Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-5064-2549-8 OCLC 1007036296
• Honouring the Past, Looking to the Future: Essays from the 2014 International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars (with Matthew Coomber and Hugh Page), Shatin: The Divinity School of Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016.
• The Fortress Commentary on Bible: The Old Testament and  Apocrypha (with Athalya Brenner), Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.
• Joshua and Judges. Texts@Contexts Series (with Athalya Brenner), Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013.

See also

• Asian feminist theology

References

1. Boer, Roland (2014). In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology. Historical Materialism. 52. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 134. doi:10.1163/9789004252349. ISBN 978-90-04-25232-5. ISSN 1570-1522.
2. Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship (January 2006). "Finding Aid for Gale A. Yee Papers, 1966-2014" (PDF). The Burke Library, Columbia University Libraries.
3. Yee, Gale A. (1987). Composition and Tradition in the Book of Hosea: A Redaction Critical Investigation. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press. ISBN 978-1-55540-091-0.
4. Episcopal Divinity School. "International Congress of Ethnic Chinese Biblical Scholars Honors EDS Professor Gale Yee".
5. Episcopal Divinity School. "Dr. Gale A. Yee Announced as Recipient of the 2015 Krister Stendahl Medal by the Graduate Theological Foundation".
6. "Status of Women in the Profession Outstanding Service in Mentoring Awards". Society of Biblical Literature. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
7. Prather, Curtis (7 December 2020). "A special Service of Light recognizes recipients of the Dean's Cross Award, Doctoral Degrees, and Honorary Degrees for 2020". Virginia Theological Seminary. Retrieved 7 December 2020.

External links

• Gale A. Yee's CV