Edward F. Wente is an American professor emeritus of Egyptology

Egyptology

Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...

 and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

. He received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1959 and lectured there from 1963-1996. He is also a longstanding member of the Oriental Institute, Chicago

Oriental Institute, Chicago

The Oriental Institute , established in 1919, is the University of Chicago's archeology museum and research center for ancient Near Eastern studies.- History and purpose:James Henry Breasted built up the collection of the Haskell Oriental Museum...

. One of his major works is Letters from Ancient Egypt (1990), published by the Scholarly Press.

Further references

• Wente, Edward F. (1990). Letters from Ancient Egypt. Edited by Edmund S. Meltzer. Translated by Edward F. Wente. Atlanta: Scholars Press, Society of Biblical Literature. ISBN 1-55540-472-3.