James Peter Allen

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James Peter Allen, born in 1945, is a prolific 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 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.

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