James Peter Allen
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James Peter Allen is an American Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion. In 2007, he became the Wilbour
Charles Edwin Wilbour
Charles Edwin Wilbour was an American journalist and Egyptologist. He was one of the discoverers of the Elephantine Papyri. He produced the first American translation of Les Misérables.-Biography:...
Professor of Egyptology at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
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Major publications
- The Inflection of the Verb in the Pyramid Texts (Malibu: Undena, 1984)
- Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988)
- Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (Cambridge: University Press, 2000)
- The Heqanakht papyriHeqanakht papyriThe Heqanakht Papyri or Heqanakht Letters , written around 2,000 BCE, have been placed in historical context since 1954, per Cerny, Jareslav . "Prices and Wages in Egypt in the Ramesside Period." Journal of World History, 1, 903–21...
. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Yale University Press, 2002) - The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006)
- The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Society of Biblical Literature, 2005)
- The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Vol. 8. Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts (Chicago: University Press, 2006)
- "The Amarna Succession" by James P. Allen in Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane, University of Memphis, 2007