Edwin M. Yamauchi

Dr. Edwin M. Yamauchi is Professor of History at Miami University, Ohio and has served in that capacity since 1969. He has authored and edited numerous books including Greece and Babylon, Persia and the Bible, The Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor, Harper's World of the New Testament, Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins, and Pre-Christian Gnosticism. A co-edited work, Peoples of the Old Testament World, received a prize from the Biblical Archaeological Society. Dr. Yamauchi's areas of expertise include: Ancient History, Old Testament, New Testament, Early Church History, Gnosticism, and Biblical Archaeology. He has recently edited Africa and Africans in Antiquity. His writings have been translated into a dozen languages. He has been a member and officer of the Institute for Biblical Research, an organization of scholars devoted to the research of the Bible.