Edwin M. Yamauchi

Edwin Masao Yamauchi (* 1937 in Hilo , Hawaii ) is a professor emeritus of Ancient History , Biblical Archeology and Early Church History at Miami University in Ohio.

Life

Edwin Yamauchi is American of Japanese descent. When he was four years old, his father died. He was raised a nominal Buddhist by his mother. He attended Iolani College, affiliated with the Episcopal Church . At the age of fifteen, he converted to evangelical Christianity. He began language studies at the University of Hawaii and then moved to Shelton College , where he graduated with a BA in Biblical Languages in 1960. This was followed by studies under Cyrus Gordon at Brandeis University, where he studied Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Arabic, Syriac and Coptic and did his doctorate on Mandaean Gnostic scriptures. In total, Yamauchi has immersed himself in 22 different languages. He taught for some time at Shelton College, then was appointed assistant professor at Rutgers University and in 1969 professor at Miami University. In 2005 he retired.

In the 1970s, Yamauchi was a prominent critic of Morton Smith's interpretation of the Secret Gospel of Mark . Yamauchi was the 2006 president of the Evangelical Theological Society , a professional association of evangelical theologians.

Yamauchi became known to a wider public through his prominent mention in Lee Strobel's bestseller "The Case of Jesus" . He has written some apologetic articles, particularly about Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus, and has appeared in television documentaries on the subject.

Private

Yamauchi is married and has two children. He lives in Oxford, Ohio and is one of the founding members of the Oxford Bible Fellowship Church in Oxford, Ohio, which belongs to the Evangelical Free Church of America and is particularly active in student work, and where he is one of the church elders to this day.

Works

Yamauchi has written 17 books himself and has worked on a further 34 as a co-author or editor. He has written 172 articles in encyclopedias and numerous articles in academic journals. His work has been translated into many languages. Much of his work deals with historical questions about the relationships between ancient cultures of the Middle East and the biblical texts. He also wrote various monographs on archaeological discoveries related to the Bible. Other topics of his research are social and cultural aspects of the history of early Christianity , the Gnosticism of antiquity , the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for New Testament studies, the value of Flavius Josephus as a source and the role of magicians in ancient Persia and in the Gospel of Matthew .

Books (selection)

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

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Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Yamauchi, Edwin M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yamauchi, Edwin Masao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American historian and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hilo , Hawaii, USA

[1] Dr. Edwin Yamauchi at CBE international

[2] Dr. Edwin Yamauchi in Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, Miami University