James Peter Allen

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James Peter Allen (born in 1945) is an American Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion. In 2007, he became the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.

[edit] 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 papyri. 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

[edit] Sources

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• "James P. Allen". Brown University. http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1170774357&r=1. Retrieved 2009-02-26. 

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