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<\/a>Brite Divinity School is pleased to announce that Dr. Wil Gafney will join the Brite faculty as Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Fall of 2014. \u201cWe are very excited to welcome Dr. Gafney to Brite,\u201d said Joretta Marshall, Executive Vice President and Dean of Brite Divinity School. \u201cDuring her campus visit, our students and faculty immediately recognized in her the gifts of teaching, scholarship, justice-making and practice for which Brite is known.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>Dr. Gafney holds a Master of Divinity from Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C. and a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Duke University. She embodies a passion for teaching and a commitment to students in all of our masters and doctoral programs. Dr. Gafney is the author of Daughters of Miriam (Fortress Press, 2008), one of the co-editors for The Peoples\u2019 Bible (Fortress Press, 2008) and The Peoples\u2019 Companion to the Bible (Fortress Press, 2010), and her work appears in a number of peer-reviewed journal articles or as chapters in books.\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>Dr. Gafney is currently working on Womanist Midrash and a Commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah. Her research and scholarship represent the leading edge of biblical scholarship. As a public intellectual her work is accessible to multiple audiences as she writes across diverse social media platforms. Dr. Gafney is an ordained Episcopal priest, has experience as a military chaplain, and is invested in inter-religious conversation. Gafney is coming to Brite from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia where she has held a faculty position since 2003.\u00a0<\/span>

<\/span>About Brite Divinity School\u00a0<\/span><\/b>

<\/span>Founded in 1914, Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University has become the premier theological seminary of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as well as a noted ecumenical divinity school preparing leaders also for Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, United Methodist and other denominations. For more information, please visit www.brite.edu. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"