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Wil Gafney

The Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible

Email: wil.gafney@tcu.edu

Phone: 817-257-7588

Biography

The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible. She is the author of A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church and translator of its biblical selections; the first two volumes, Year A and W (a stand alone volume) were published in August. Volumes B is awaiting publication summer 2023 and C is underway, due in due in 2024. She is 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 canonically resident in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of Texas and, a former Army chaplain and congregational pastor in the AME 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, PA.

Degrees:

  • Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible, Duke University, 2006

  • Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, Duke University, 2000

  • M.Div. with Special Recognition in Homiletics and Hebrew Bible, Howard University School of Divinity, 1997

  • B.A., Earlham College, 1987 

Courses Taught:

  • Introduction to Interpreting the Hebrew Bible

  • Exegesis in the Hebrew Bible: Exodus

  • Womanist Biblical Interpretation

  • The Bible in the Public Square: The Bible and Black Lives Matter

  • Prophets on the Margins

  • Software Supported Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible

  • Exegesis in the Hebrew Bible: Exodus

  • Exegesis in the Hebrew Bible: Judges

  • Womanstory in the Hebrew Bible​

Professional Affiliations:

  • Editorial Team, Journal of Biblical Literature

  • Society of Biblical Literature​ Professional Development Committee​

  • Society for the Study of Black Religion

Select Publications:

  • A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church. Year A. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, 2021.

  • A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church. Year W. New York: Church Publishing Incorporated, 2021.

  • Commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah. Liturgical Press, 2017.

  • Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and of the Throne. Westminster John/Knox Press, 2017.

  • The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible, Edited with DeYoung, Curtiss, Wil Gafney, Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, George Tinker, Frank Yamada; Fortress, 2010.

  • Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008.​

  • The Peoples’ Bible, Edited with DeYoung, Curtiss, Wil Gafney, Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, George Tinker, Frank Yamada; Fortress, 2008.