W. B. West (1907–1994)

He was listed in Preachers of Today, Vol. 1, 1952, 364. He was baptized by H. M. Phillips in June 1921.

He received the B.A. degree from Abilene Christian College with a major in Bible and Greek. Dr. West studied in five graduate schools of religion and received the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Theology degrees from the University of California. In 1961, Dr. West lectured in Japan and Korea, and in the summer of 1962 he studied in Palestine on a fellowship. Dr. West has appeared on many college lectureships and some of his lectures appear in book form. He plans to begin writing soon a commentary on the Book of Revelation. Dr. West has served as minister for both the Churches of Christ in the Central and the York Boulevard churches in Los Angeles; the Northwest congregation in Chicago; the church in Van Nuys, and Culver City, California; and is now minister for the Park Avenue congregation in Memphis, Tennessee. A noted educator, Dr. West holds membership in the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, the National Association of Biblical Instructors, is an associate member in the American Schools of Oriental Research, and serves as secretary of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. For ten years Dr. West was head of the Department of Religion at George Pepperdine College where he started the first graduate Department of Bible and Religion in a college operated by members of the churches of Christ. In 1951, he became head of the Bible Department at Harding College and there helped to establish a graduate department of Bible and Religion. In 1958, he, with Dr. George S. Benson, established the Harding College Graduate School of Bible and Religion in Memphis, Tennessee, where he presently serves as Dean and Professor of New Testament. -J. Cliett Goodpasture,