Sasagu Arai
Sasagu Arai (荒井 献, Arai Sasagu; May 6, 1930 – August 16, 2024) was a Japanese scholar of New Testament Study and researcher of early Christianity and Gnosticism. Arai was a Doctor of Theology. Professor emeritus of University of Tokyo and Keisen University (in which he took office as president), and a member of the Japan Academy. He graduated (1962) at Erlangen-Nürnberg University in Germany.