Jerry Bergman has taught at the college level for forty years. A multi-award-winning author, his work has been translated into thirteen languages and is in over 1,500 college libraries in twenty-seven countries. Over eighty thousand copies of the forty-three books and monographs that he has authored or coauthored are currently in print. He has also spoken over two thousand times to college, university, and church groups in America, Canada, Europe, the South Sea Islands, and Africa.