Gerald West

1.6k total citations
77 papers, 491 citations indexed

About

Gerald West is a scholar working on Religious studies, Sociology and Political Science and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald West has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 491 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Religious studies, 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 16 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Gerald West's work include Biblical Studies and Interpretation (38 papers), Christian Theology and Mission (31 papers) and Religion, Society, and Development (31 papers). Gerald West is often cited by papers focused on Biblical Studies and Interpretation (38 papers), Christian Theology and Mission (31 papers) and Religion, Society, and Development (31 papers). Gerald West collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Gerald West's co-authors include Musa W. Dube, Hans de Wit, Andrew Dawson, Charles Villa‐Vicencio, Peter Hebblethwaite, Valpy FitzGerald, Oliver O’Donovan, Christopher Rowland, Mary Grey and Denys Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Biblical Literature and HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies.

In The Last Decade

Gerald West

62 papers receiving 379 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerald West South Africa 12 315 281 136 35 28 77 491
Mercy Amba Oduyoye United States 7 180 0.6× 253 0.9× 94 0.7× 17 0.5× 8 0.3× 22 347
Ogbu U. Kalu Nigeria 11 195 0.6× 369 1.3× 119 0.9× 52 1.5× 3 0.1× 38 486
Paul Freston Brazil 11 114 0.4× 392 1.4× 26 0.2× 62 1.8× 11 0.4× 27 457
Amy‐Jill Levine United States 12 224 0.7× 187 0.7× 22 0.2× 36 1.0× 39 1.4× 47 345
Ross Shepard Kraemer United States 10 389 1.2× 312 1.1× 20 0.1× 74 2.1× 50 1.8× 33 609
David Maxwell United Kingdom 12 143 0.5× 395 1.4× 102 0.8× 39 1.1× 5 0.2× 34 488
Robert Schreiter Costa Rica 8 244 0.8× 289 1.0× 64 0.5× 40 1.1× 2 0.1× 43 408
Oscar Cole-Arnal Canada 10 115 0.4× 179 0.6× 27 0.2× 59 1.7× 12 0.4× 45 319
Ruth Marshall Canada 5 73 0.2× 361 1.3× 57 0.4× 66 1.9× 6 0.2× 5 426
Bengt Sundkler Sweden 7 125 0.4× 281 1.0× 81 0.6× 56 1.6× 3 0.1× 13 404

Countries citing papers authored by Gerald West

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald West

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald West

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerald West. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerald West based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gerald West. Gerald West is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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West, Gerald. (2017). Redaction criticism as a resource for the Bible as ‘a site of struggle’. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2016). Towards an African liberationist queer theological pedagogy. 155. 216–224. 4 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2014). Juxtaposing "Many Cattle" in Biblical Narrative (Jonah 4:11), Imperial Narrative, Neo-Indigenous Narrative. Old Testament Essays. 27(2). 722–751.
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West, Gerald. (2011). Tracking an ancient Near Eastern economic system : the tributary mode of production and the temple-state. Old Testament Essays. 24(2). 511–532. 6 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2011). Do Two Walk Together? Walking with the Other through Contextual Bible Study. Anglican Theological Review. 93(3). 431. 14 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2010). Unstructural Analysis of the Bible Reinforcing Unstructural Analysis of African Contexts in (South) Africa. Old Testament Essays. 23(3). 861–888. 2 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2008). Doing postcolonial biblical interpretation @home : ten years of (South) African ambivalence. Neotestamentica. 42(1). 147–164. 5 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2007). Reading other-wise : socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities. 13 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2007). The Bible and the female body in Ibandla lamaNazaretha: Isaiah Shembe and Jephthah's daughter. Old Testament Essays. 20(2). 489–509. 3 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2006). The Vocation of an African biblical scholar on the margins of biblical scholarship. Old Testament Essays. 19(1). 307–336. 9 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2006). Reading Shembe 're-membering' the Bible : Isaiah Shembe's instructions on adultery. Neotestamentica. 40(1). 157–184. 5 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2004). The historicity of myth and the myth of historicity : locating the ordinary African 'reader' of the Bible in the debate. Neotestamentica. 38(1). 127–144. 4 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (2002). Reading abused female bodies in the Bible : interpretative strategies for recognising and recovering the stories of women inscribed by violence but circumscribed by patriarchal text (2 Kings 5). Old Testament Essays. 15(1). 240–258. 3 indexed citations
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West, Gerald & Roland Boer. (2001). A vanishing mediator? : the presence/absence of the Bible in postcolonialism. 1 indexed citations
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West, Gerald & Musa W. Dube. (2000). The Bible in Africa : transactions, trajectories, and trends. BRILL eBooks. 46 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (1997). READING ON THE BOUNDARIES: READING 2 SAMUEL 21:1-14 WITH RIZPAH. 63. 527–537. 1 indexed citations
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West, Gerald, et al.. (1996). "Reading with" : an exploration of the interface between critical and ordinary readings of the Bible : African overtures. 7 indexed citations
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West, Gerald. (1993). The interface between trained readers and ordinary readers in liberateion hermeneutics: a case study: Mark 10:17-22. Neotestamentica. 27(1). 165–180.

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