James Peter Allen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
—
 |
Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. This article has been tagged since January 2007. |
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since November 2006. |
James Peter Allen is a prolific Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion born in 1945. In 2007, he became the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. Some of his major publications include:
- 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 Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006),
- The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Society of Biblical Literature, 2005), and
- The Egyptian Coffin Texts, Vol. 8. Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts (Chicago: University Press, 2006).
- [1] 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
 |
This article about a historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
