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peakoil · 01-06-2012, 04:12 PM

Edwin M. Yamauchi,PH.D.

With a doctorate in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University, and having taught at Miami University for more than thirty-five years, Edwin Yamauchi has been called "a scholar's scholar." As on admiring colleague put it, he has "dug archaeologically,taught brilliantly,read voraciously,researched meticulously, and published endlessly."

Yamauchi has studied twenty-two lanuages, including Akkadian,Aramic,Greek,Hebrew,Chinese,Comanche,Copt ic,Egyptian,Mandaic,Syriac, and Ugaritic. He has recieved eight fellowships from Brandeis,Rutgers,and elsewhere;delivered eighty-eight papers on Mithraism,Gnosticism,and other topics at scholarly societies;published nearly two hundred articles and reviews in professional journals;lectured at more than a hundred collages and universities;including Cornell.Princeton,Temple,Yale,and the University of Chicago;and participated in archeological expeditions,including the first excavation of the Herodian temple in Jerusalem.

Yamauchi's seventeen books include the 578-page authoritative tome Persia and the Bible,which includes his findings in Mithraism,as well as Greece and Babylon,Gnostic ethics and Mandean Origins,The Stones and the Scriptures,Pre-Christian Gnosticism,The Archaeology of The New Testament,The World of First Christians and Africa and the Bible. In 1975 he was invited to deliver a paper at the Second International Congress of Mithraic Studies in Tehran, a conference hosted by the then-empress of Iran.

Born into a Japanese Buddhist family but a Christian since 1952, Yamauchi has a sterling reputation in the academic world. One book called him "a scholar known for his extreme care and sober judgement with historical texts." Award-winning historian Paul Maier said Yamauchi wields "crystal logic and hard,potent evidence,"adding:

No one in the academic world today can better sniff out sensationalism in place of sense,excesses beyond the evidence,and speculation instead of scholarship.Whatever historical or theological fad might come along-and so many have!-one brilliant article by Yamaauchi supplies the evidence to skewer any bloated pretensions against the cause of truth

-Lee Strobel

"I don't think anyone can make a convincing case that the virgin birth of Jesus was derived from any pagan sources."
-E.Yamauchi

"There's no reason to suppose that primitive Christianity was influenced by the Hellenistic mysteries."
-Mircea Eliade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sarfati

I'm sorry, did you say something?

01-06-2012, 04:12 PM	#26
peakoil Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2010	Edwin M. Yamauchi,PH.D. With a doctorate in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University, and having taught at Miami University for more than thirty-five years, Edwin Yamauchi has been called "a scholar's scholar." As on admiring colleague put it, he has "dug archaeologically,taught brilliantly,read voraciously,researched meticulously, and published endlessly." Yamauchi has studied twenty-two lanuages, including Akkadian,Aramic,Greek,Hebrew,Chinese,Comanche,Copt ic,Egyptian,Mandaic,Syriac, and Ugaritic. He has recieved eight fellowships from Brandeis,Rutgers,and elsewhere;delivered eighty-eight papers on Mithraism,Gnosticism,and other topics at scholarly societies;published nearly two hundred articles and reviews in professional journals;lectured at more than a hundred collages and universities;including Cornell.Princeton,Temple,Yale,and the University of Chicago;and participated in archeological expeditions,including the first excavation of the Herodian temple in Jerusalem. Yamauchi's seventeen books include the 578-page authoritative tome Persia and the Bible,which includes his findings in Mithraism,as well as Greece and Babylon,Gnostic ethics and Mandean Origins,The Stones and the Scriptures,Pre-Christian Gnosticism,The Archaeology of The New Testament,The World of First Christians and Africa and the Bible. In 1975 he was invited to deliver a paper at the Second International Congress of Mithraic Studies in Tehran, a conference hosted by the then-empress of Iran. Born into a Japanese Buddhist family but a Christian since 1952, Yamauchi has a sterling reputation in the academic world. One book called him "a scholar known for his extreme care and sober judgement with historical texts." Award-winning historian Paul Maier said Yamauchi wields "crystal logic and hard,potent evidence,"adding: No one in the academic world today can better sniff out sensationalism in place of sense,excesses beyond the evidence,and speculation instead of scholarship.Whatever historical or theological fad might come along-and so many have!-one brilliant article by Yamaauchi supplies the evidence to skewer any bloated pretensions against the cause of truth -Lee Strobel "I don't think anyone can make a convincing case that the virgin birth of Jesus was derived from any pagan sources." -E.Yamauchi "There's no reason to suppose that primitive Christianity was influenced by the Hellenistic mysteries." -Mircea Eliade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Sarfati I'm sorry, did you say something?