Edwin M. Yamauchi

Edwin M. Yamauchi ( born 1937 in Hilo, Hawaii) is Professor of Ancient History, Biblical archeology and early church history at Miami University in Ohio.

Life

Edwin Yamauchi is an American of Japanese descent. When he was four years old, his father died. From his mother, he was raised as a nominal Buddhist. He attended the Episcopal church affiliated Iolani College. At fifteen he was converted to evangelical Christianity. He began voice studies at the University of Hawaii and then moved to Shelton College, where he is a study of the biblical languages ​​in 1960 with a BA completed. It went on to study under Cyrus Gordon of Brandeis University, where he studied, among other Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic and Mandaean Gnostic writings about his doctorate. Overall, Yamauchi has deepened in 22 different languages. He taught for some time at Shelton College, then became an assistant professor at Rutgers University and was appointed professor at Miami University in 1969. In the 1970s he was a prominent critic of Morton Smith's interpretation of the Secret Gospel of Mark. Yamauchi is president of the Evangelical Theological Society, a professional association of evangelical theologians.

Yamauchi became known to a wider public through its prominent mention in Lee Strobel's bestseller " The case of Jesus." He has written some apologetic articles, especially on Easter and the resurrection of Jesus, and has appeared on this topic in television documentaries. Yamauchi is married and has two children. He lives in Oxford, Ohio, and one of the founding members belonging to the Evangelical Free Church of America Oxford Bible Fellowship Church in Oxford, Ohio, in the students' work is particularly active, and where he is one of the church elders to this day.

Works

Yamauchi himself wrote 17 books and contributed to a further 33 as co -author or editor. He has written 172 articles in encyclopedias, as well as numerous articles in academic journals. Much of his work deals with historical questions about the relationships between the ancient cultures of the Middle East and the biblical texts. In addition, he published several mono graphs on archaeological discoveries that are in relation with the Bible. Other topics of research are social and cultural aspects of the history of early Christianity, Gnosticism of the ancient world, the importance of the scrolls from the Dead Sea for New Testament studies, the value of Flavius ​​Josephus as a source and the role of the Magi in ancient Persia and in the Gospel of Matthew.

Books (selection)

  • Africa and the Bible ( Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004). ISBN 0-8010-2686-5
  • Persia and the Bible ( Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990). ISBN 0-8010-9899-8
  • Pre- Christian Gnosticism: A Survey of the Proposed Evidences ( Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1973) ISBN 0-8028-3429-9 ( Revised edition, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983) ISBN 0-8010-9919-6
  • Foes From The Northern Frontier ( Grand Rapids: Baker, 1982). ISBN 0-8010-9918-8
  • Harper's World of the New Testament (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981). ISBN 0-06-069708-3
  • The Stones and The Scriptures (Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1972) ISBN 0-87981-002-5
  • The Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor ( Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980). ISBN 0-8010-9915-3
  • Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970).
  • Greece and Babylon ( Grand Rapids: Baker, 1967).
  • Mandaic Incantation Texts (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1967).
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