James Peter Allen
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James Peter Allen | |
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Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Occupation(s) | Egyptologist and Professor at Brown University |
James Peter Allen (born 1945) is an American Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion. He was curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1990 to 2006.[1][2] In 2007, he became the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.[3] In 2008, he was elected president of the International Association of Egyptologists. A graduate of Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago.
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, 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" in Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane, University of Memphis, 2007
- Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs 2nd ed. (Cambridge: University Press, 2010)
- The Debate between a Man and His Soul, a Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 44; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011)
- The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
References
- ^ Wilford, John Noble (1999-12-28). "With Fresh Discoveries, Egyptology Flowers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (2005-09-10). "Secrets of the Mummy's Medicine Chest". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ Wilford, John Noble (2012-09-17). "New Demotic Dictionary Translates Lives of Ancient Egyptians". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
Sources
- "James P. Allen". Brown University. Retrieved 2009-02-26.