Dr. Gareth Lloyd Jones is an Anglican priest of the Church in Wales who was educated at the Universities of Wales, Cambridge, Dublin, Yale University Divinity School, and Jerusalem. Since 1982 he has spent various semesters as visiting professor of Old Testament at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, where he has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He has also taught at McCormick Seminary in Chicago. Ordained in 1965, Jones worked for three years as a curate in his native diocese of Bangor, Wales. In 1970 he was appointed to teach at Oxford, moving in 1977 to the University of Wales where he teaches Hebrew and Old Testament Studies and was Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. From 1971 to 1988, he was a member of the Old Testament panel responsible for translating the Bible into modern Welsh, which was published in March 1988 on the 400^th anniversary of the first Welsh translation. Dr. Jones earned his PhD at King's College, London. Dr. Jones's appearance at AHUMCis sponsored by the J. Maurice Smith Lectureship Fund. All events are free and open to everyone.