R. S. Sugirtharajah

R S Sugirtharajah is Professor Emeritus in Biblical Hermeneutics at Birmingham University, U.K., and has taught and lectured in several countries. He is author and editor of significant volumes on biblical studies, including The Bible and Asia (Harvard University Press), Jesus in Asia (Harvard University Press), The Bible and Empire (Cambridge University Press), The Bible and the Third World (Cambridge University Press), Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation (Oxford University...See more

R S Sugirtharajah is Professor Emeritus in Biblical Hermeneutics at Birmingham University, U.K., and has taught and lectured in several countries. He is author and editor of significant volumes on biblical studies, including The Bible and Asia (Harvard University Press), Jesus in Asia (Harvard University Press), The Bible and Empire (Cambridge University Press), The Bible and the Third World (Cambridge University Press), Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation (Oxford University Press), Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism (Wiley Blackwell), and The Brahmin and His Bible (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark). His edited volume Voices from the Margin was a Catholic Book Award winner. Besides his academic work, he contributes a regular cultural column for a leading Tamil literary journal in Chennai, India. He has also published a collection of short stories and three volumes of essays in Tamil. See less