The Light of Discovery: Studies in Honor of Edwin M. Yamauchi: 6 (Evangelical Theological Society Monograph)

Description: The Light of Discovery is a Festschrift honoring Dr. Edwin Yamauchi and it focuses on the Mediterranean world. The collection is ambitious in terms of time (from ancient Egypt to Late Antiquity) and wide-ranging in topic (from astrology and Gnosticism to the Van Kampen Collection of manuscripts in Orlando). Yamauchi is Professor of History at Miami University Oxford Ohio where he has taught since 1969. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1964 working under Cyrus Gordon. He teaches in the areas of ancient history biblical archaeology and early church history. He has authored and edited seventeen books including Greece and Babylon Persia and the Bible The Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor Harpers World of the New Testament Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins and Pre-Christian Gnosticism. A coedited work Peoples of the Old Testament World received a prize from the Biblical Archaeological Society. He has recently edited Africa and Africans in Antiquity. His writings have been translated into a dozen languages. About the Contributor(s): John Wineland the editor is Professor of History and Archaeology at Kentucky Christian University. He is the author of Ancient Abila: An Archaeological History (2001). Contributors: Kenneth R. Calvert Scott Carroll John F. DeFelice Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom Daniel Hoffman Paul L. Maier Lester Ness Jerry Pattengale Carl B. Smith II Robert W. Smith Steven M. Stannish and John D. Wineland.