Article: Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., feminist mentor: rightly did the maidens love him.

When I first arrived at Duke University in 1979 to begin doctoral studies in Old Testament, I did not know how truly lucky I was. "Oh, you're Roland's student" was the greeting I received immediately from the Religion Department when I checked in. It was news to me, though Roland Murphy was certainly the reason why a professor at Yale had suggested Duke as a place for me to study wisdom traditions. I had read Roland's work, naturally, as I waited for school to begin, but I did not translate that into immediately being tagged as "his"! Where I was studying, students were very lucky indeed if such well known professors even kept appointments with them or turned in their ...

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