Dr. Wil Gafney
SHE/HER | WOMANIST, HEBREW BIBLICAL SCHOLAR, ACTIVIST, EPISCOPAL PRIEST
Womanist biblical scholar the Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D., is the author of A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church and translator of its biblical selections and is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She is also the author of Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to Women of the Torah and of the Throne; a commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah in the Wisdom series; Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel; and co-editor of The Peoples' Bible and The Peoples' Companion to the Bible. She has completed the second volume of Womanist Midrash focusing on women in the Former Prophets, expected summer 2023. She is an Episcopal priest, a former Army chaplain, and a former congregational pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. A former member of the Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist Minyan of the Germantown Jewish Center in Philadelphia, she has co-taught courses with and for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Seminary in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. She is a preacher, teacher, activist, and amateur watercolorist.