Cadbury Lectures 2024

Dear Research Network, Colleagues and Friends,

We are excited to introduce the forthcoming Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham. The special speaker is womanist scholar, Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney. Details are below. Click here for full information.

The Misogynoir to Mishpat (M2M) Research Network (c) 2024

Location Online – a link will be sent to you before the event. Dates Tuesday 21 May (19:30) – Thursday 23 May 2024 (20:30)

The Edward Cadbury Lectures are supported by an endowment from the Cadbury Family to the University of Birmingham for an annual series of lectures open to the public on the history, theology and culture of Christianity.

The 2024 lecture series presents the translation-based womanist biblical scholarship of the Rev. Wil Gafney, Womanist biblical scholar and Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas.

Each lecture will run 7.30-8.30pm, followed by a tea & coffee drinks reception. Please note this is a later start time than previously advertised.

There is now an additional option to register to attend online, as the talks will be live streamed.

Biography

The Rev Dr Wil Gafney is a scholar, pastor, preacher and activist. She is the Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Ft. Worth, TX, where she teaches masters and doctoral students in initial and advanced degree programs including MDiv, ThM and PhD.

Dr. Gafney is the author of A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church Years A and B and,Year W, a stand alone volume (Church House Publishing), Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne (Westminster/John Knox), a commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah for the Liturgical Press Wisdom series, Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel and co-editor of (Prophets and the Deuterocanonical Writings/Apocrypha) The Peoples’ Bible and The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible (Fortress), and commentary on Judges in the CEB Women’s Bible. Volume C of the Lectionary is due in 2024. She has finished a second volume of Womanist Midrash focusing on women in the Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings. Her essays include: “A Womanist Midrash of Delilah: Don’t Hate the Playa Hate the Game” (Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse, Society of Biblical Literature), “A Womanist Midrash on Zipporah” (I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader, Cascade Press), “It Does Matter If You’re Black or White, Too Black or Too White, but Mestizo is Just Right” (Re-Presenting Texts: Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation, Society of Biblical Literature) and “A Queer Womanist Midrashic Reading of Numbers 25:1-18” (Leviticus and Numbers: Texts @ Contexts). Find the full biography for Dr. Gafney’s here.