Wil Gafney is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. A Womanist biblical scholar, she is the author of the four-volume series A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church and translator of its biblical selections. She is also the author of Womanist Midrash, Volume 1: A Reintroduction to Women of the Torah and the Throne ; Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel ; and coeditor of The Peoples' Bible and The Peoples' Companion to the Bible . 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. Visit her website at www.wilgafney.

com .