Edwin M. Yamauchi 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, Pre-Christian Gnosticism, and Africa and Africans in Antiquity. A co-edited work, Peoples of the Old Testament World, received a prize fromt he Biblical Archaeological Society. His writing have been translated into a dozen languages.