Contribution to Book
“Yamauchi, Edwin Masao (b. 1937),”
The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization
(2011)
Abstract
Edwin Masao Yamauchi was born in Hawaii, USA, in 1937. He was raised nominally Buddhist, and in high school became an evangelical Protestant Christian. He earned a B.A. in Hebrew and Hellenistics from Shelton College (1960) and an M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) from Brandeis University in Mediterranean Studies. Yamauchi studied 22 languages including Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Italian, Latin, Minoan Linear A, Minoan Linear B, Russian, and Ugaritic. He also participated in archaeological excavations in Israel. Cyrus H. Gordon, the Jewish scholar of the Bible, Mediterranean, and ancient Near East, directed Yamauchi's doctoral work. His doctoral dissertation, “Mandaic Incantation Texts,” considered magic incantation texts written on clay bowls in the Mandaic dialect of Aramaic, which is used by the Mandean Gnostics found in Iran and Iraq. After completing his doctoral work, Yamauchi taught …
Keywords
- Edwin Yamauchi
Publication Date
2011
Editor
George Thomas Kurian
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN
9781405157629
Citation Information
Jeffrey Morrow. "“Yamauchi, Edwin Masao (b. 1937),”" OxfordThe Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization Vol. 4 (2011) p. 2549 - 2550 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey-morrow/50/