of Church of St John the Baptist, Secunderabad became the bishop-in-Medak. Post-retirement, Premasagar spent about a year at the Presbyterian Church of Wales as an invitee. On his return to India, Premasagar taught part-time at ACTC. He was later invited by Dr. K. Rajaratnam, director of Gurukul Lutheran Theological College, Chennai to teach and guide doctoral students and was Professor Emeritus of Old Testament. In 2000, Premasagar accepted an invitation to become principal of Bethel Bible College, Guntur, where he taught until his death at St. Joseph's Hospital, Guntur, on 1 December 2005. Works and legacy Premasagar's research works have appeared in scholarly journals including the Vetus Testamentum and the Indian Journal of Theology. Some essays were written in his honour (festschrift) commemorating his shastipoorthi (completion of sixty years) and brought into a book edited by H. S. Wilson entitled The Church on the Move: Essays in honour of Victor Premasagar which was reviewed in 1990 by George Peck in the International Review of Mission Research. and a majority of his writings until that point of time compiled by his colleague, The Rev. G. Babu Rao, CBCNC, appeared in the appendix to the festschrift. 1966, Note on Psalm lxxx, 1966, A Note on HOQ in the Old Testament, 1972, Crisis for Salvation Theology!, 1974, Theology of Promise in the Patriarchal Narratives, 1976, A Review of the Literature on Pastoral Ministry published in India during the last Twenty-Five Years 1976, He emptied Himself – Bible Studies on Jesus Christ Frees and Unites, 1977, Biblical concept of righteousness and the Indian context, 1992, The Gods of our Fathers – Towards a Theology of Indian Religious and Cultural Heritage 1994, Vanaprasthasrama Dharma: A Programme of Renewal and Religion, 2000, Promise in the Ancestral Narratives: A theme of the early Hebrew traditions, 2000, Evangelium Dei: Mission Paradigm for a New Global Vision, 2002, Interpretive Diary of a Bishop – Indian Experience in Translation and Interpretation of some Biblical passages, 2004, Theology of a Convert: A Contribution to Indian Christian Theology from the Cultural and Religious Heritage of India, 2005, Jacob at the Jabbok: A struggle resulting in Transforming Experience, See also Telugu Christian Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Latin Vulgate Biblical Criticism, Form Criticism Rev. Dr. Gerhard von Rad, Rev. Dr. Claus Westermann, Dr. Klaus Koch St. George's Grammar School (Hyderabad) References 1927 births 2005 deaths Indian biblical scholars Translators of the Bible into Telugu Telugu