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Memphis\u00a0Theological\u00a0Seminary<\/a> is pleased to announce in celebration of Women\u2019s History month that Dr. Wil Gafney<\/a> will serve as our Todd lecturer. She serves as\u00a0<\/span><\/span>an Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia<\/a>. Her course offerings include: Heroines, Harlots and Handmaids: the Women of the Hebrew Scriptures with sections on \u201cCosmic Herstory,\u201d \u201cCarnal Knowledge\u201d and \u201cPostcolonial Musings,\u201d and Prophetic Constructions, which explores prophets who do not have canonical books attributed to them, including better-known prophets such as Miriam and Nathan, Elijah and Elisha, along with lesser-known prophets such as the woman with whom Isaiah fathered a child and Zedekiah the Canaanite. Her approach to teaching the Hebrew Scriptures includes emphasizing archaeology, comparative ancient Near Eastern literature, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her newer courses include Suffering in Job and the Holocaust, An Introduction to the Dead Seas Scrolls, and Exodus in African and African American Exegesis.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Her interest in the ancient Near Eastern and biblical portrayals of Lilith and other night-stalking creatures led to her participation in two HBO documentaries on the origin and evolution of vampire mythologies, True Bloodlines: Vampire Legends and True Bloodlines: A New Type in 2008, airing before the series premier of True Blood.<\/span><\/div>\n
Dr. Gafney, an ordained Episcopal priest, is a member of the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, PA. Founded in 1792, it is the first Episcopal church in the U.S. founded by and for African Americans. She is also a member of the Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist Minyan of the Germantown Jewish Centre, in Philadelphia. She is particularly interested in how Jews and Christians interpret the texts they hold in common.<\/span><\/div>\n
Dr. Gafney is a former US Army Reserve chaplain. And, she served the Thompson Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church as pastor before joining the Episcopal Church.<\/span><\/div>\n
Among her research interests are feminist biblical studies, rabbinic studies, and issues in translation. Dr. Gafney\u2019s series of bible studies in Genesis was published in the Abingdon Pastor\u2019s Bible Study, Volume III, in 2006. Her monograph, Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel, and the Peoples\u2019 Bible<\/a>, which she co-edited, are available through Fortress Press. Her recent projects include an exploration of motherhood in messianic genealogies in \u201cMother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation in Ruth\u201d in Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on \u201cResponsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures\u201d in the African diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fortress). Dr. Gafney has also contributed to the Lutheran Study Bible, now available through Fortress, and is anticipating publication of a commentary on the book of Numbers in the African Women\u2019s Bible Commentary. Her essay on transformative teaching practices, \u201cIntoxicating Teaching as Transformational Pedagogy\u201d in the volume edited by Elisabeth Sch\u00fcssler Fiorenza and Kent Harold Richards, Transforming Graduate Biblical Education: Ethos and Discipline was published by the Society of Biblical Literature in 2010.<\/span><\/div>\n
A number of Dr. Gafney\u2019s sermons in Jewish and Christian congregations are posted in her blog<\/a>. In most cases, the translation of the scriptures is her own. Dr. Gafney also is a blogger on the Huffington Post \u2013 follow her writing here.<\/a> Visit Dr. Gafney\u2019s Amazon author page here<\/a>. Dr. Gafney\u2019s sermons have also been published in Those Preaching Women and The Audacity of Faith, both by Judson Press in 2008.<\/span><\/div>\n
Education: B.A. Earlham College, 1987; M.Div. Howard University School of Divinity, 1997; Graduate Certificate in Women\u2019s Studies, Duke University, 2000; Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible, Duke University, 2006.<\/span><\/div>\n
The lectures will take place March 5-6 at Lindenwood Christian Church <\/a>2400 Union Ave (Directly across from Memphis Theological Seminary). Dr Gafney will offer three lectures; \u201c<\/i><\/span><\/span>Bathsheba\u2019s Legacy: Royal Women of Israel and Judah,\u201d<\/i> \u201c<\/i><\/span>A Legion of Preaching Women: Women Prophets in Israel,\u201d<\/i>and <\/i><\/span>\u201cThe Darkly Radiant Image of God: Black and Female<\/i>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>The lecture times are as follows:\u00a0<\/i><\/span>March 5, 2013 \u2013 7:00 p.m;\u00a0<\/span>March
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