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Resources by Wil Gafney

Race Matters: Biblical Representations in the Seminary Classroom

Wil Gafney Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible Brite Divinity School When and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me. Anna Julia Cooper Student enters. Looks at me, looks at other students, looks back at me. Is this room 101? Looks at me, looks at other students, looks back at me. Is this Hebrew? Looks at me, looks at other students, looks back at me. Are you teaching it? There is no place that race is not present and...

Learning From Each Other: Hevruta

Wil Gafney, Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (At Brite Divinity School as of 9/2014) As the saying goes, “sometimes the old ways are best.” (Eve Moneypenny and James Bond in Skyfall, 2012) Hevruta...