Product Description
by Aliou Cissé Niang (Editor), Andrew M. Mbuvi (Editor), Alice Yafeh-Deigh (Editor)
The meaningful juxtaposition of academics (""experts"") with the day-to-day lives of nonacademics (""nonexperts"") has animated Gerald O. West's work from the beginning. Seeking to bridge this chasm, West's approach of reading the Bible with the ""ordinary people"" (typically marginalized communities) became a core practice not only of his church work but of his scholarship. West has been a strong proponent of taking seriously the ""ordinary reader"" as a viable and legitimate contributor to our understanding of biblical interpretation. Not only does this undo the ""ivory tower"" elitism that tends to pervade academic halls of learning, but it also reflects a form of scholarly humility that has been a mainstay of West's and should be perpetuated more broadly in biblical scholarship.
Author Biography
Aliou Cissé Niang is associate professor of biblical interpretation--New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of Faith and Freedom in Galatia and Senegal (2009) and A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism (Cascade, 2019).
Andrew M. Mbuvi is visiting NEH Chair in Humanities and associate professor in the religion department at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. His has authored African Biblical Studies (2022).
Alice Yafeh-Deigh is professor of biblical studies at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. She is the author of Paul's Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7 (2015).
Tinyiko Maluleke is vice chancellor and principal at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the coeditor of Ecumenical Encounters with Desmond Mpilo Tutu (2021).
Kenneth N. Ngwa is Donald J. Casper Professor of Hebrew Bible and African Biblical Hermeneutics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and directs the Religion and Global Health Forum. He is the author of Let My People Live (2022).
