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Edwin M. Yamauchi

Educational Background:

  • B.A. Shelton College, 1960
  • Summer Inst. of Archaeology (Brandeis University), 1960
  • Summer Inst. of Linguistics (University of Oklahoma), 1961
  • M.A. Brandeis University, 1962
  • Summer Inst. of Near East Languages (Harvard University), 1962
  • Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1964

Current Profession:

Professor of History Emeritus

Books Published:

Composition and Corroboration in Classical and Biblical Studies
Presbyterian & Reformed - 1966
Greece and Babylon
Baker Book House - 1967
Mandaic Incantation Texts
American Oriental Society - 1967
Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins
Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press - 1970
The Stones and the Scriptures
Lippincott - 1972
Pre-Christian Gnosticism
Tyndale Press - 1973
Archaeology and the Bible (with D.J. Wiseman)
Zondervan - 1979
The Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor
Baker Book House - 1980
The Scriptures and Archaeology
Western Conservative Baptist Seminary - 1980
The World of the First Christians
Lion - 1981
Foes from the Northern Frontier
Baker Book House - 1982
Chronos, Kairos, Christos (Co-editor with Jerry Vardaman)
Eisenbrauns - 1989
Persia and the Bible
Baker Book House - 1990
Two Kingdoms: The Church and Culture through the Ages (With R. Clouse and R. Pierard)
Moody Press - 1930
Peoples of the Old Testament World (Co-editor with A. Hoerth and G. Mattingly)
Baker Book House - 1994
Africa and Africans in Antiquity (Editor)
Michigan State University Press - 2001
Africa and the Bible
Baker - 2004

Biographical Sketch:

Edwin Yamauchi received his B.A. in Hebrew and Hellenistics from Shelton College in 1960. He later earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mediterranean Studies from Brandeis University. He is currently the Professor of History Emeritus at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Throughout his productive writing career, Yamauchi has authored seventeen books, written chapters for thirty-four books, and crafted 172 articles in thirty-six reference works, eighty-nine journal articles, and 107 reviews in twenty-seven journals.

In addition to his occupation at Miami University, Yamauchi serves as a high-ranking officer in five different scholarly societies and also works on five different editorial boards.