Peggy Day

Biography

Dr. Peggy L. Day earned her PhD in 1986 from Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, majoring in Hebrew Bible. Her first academic position was at the University of Toronto, Trinity College, an affiliate of the Toronto School of Theology (TST). When she began at Trinity in 1986 she was the only woman among TST’s approximately 25 Bible professors, yet the majority of TST’s students were female and many were grassroots feminists. At this time there was very little feminist scholarship in the field of Hebrew Bible upon which these students could draw. Dr. Day made a contribution to remedying this gap with the 1989 publication of Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel. In 1991 she was selected as one of the inaugural members of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Committee on Women in the Profession, and eventually became that committee’s co-chair (1994-8). She has published several articles on the northwest Semitic warrior goddess Anat as well as numerous articles on various Hebrew Bible texts that personify ancient Near Eastern cities as licentious, adulterous women. She has taught in the Religion & Culture Department at the University of Winnipeg for the past 26 years, and was that Department’s Chair from 1999-2010 and a Full Professor since 1999. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada, with her partner Steve Baker and their three very spoiled cats.

Research Interest

Hebrew Bible; Women in Ancient Israel.