Gerald O. West

Gerald West is Head of the School of Theology at the University of Natal in Pietermartizburg, South Africa. He received his Master's and Ph.D. from Sheffield University in Sheffield, England. He is author of Biblical Hermeneutics of Liberation: Modes of Reading the Bible in the South African Context (New York: Maryknoll 1995, and Cluster Publications, 1995), The Academy of the Poor: Toward a Dialogical Reading of the Bible (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), and was co-editor of The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trends, and Trajectories, (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000).