John Baines
John Baines (born 1946) is the incumbent Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College. He has held that position since 1976, when he was one of the youngest tenured professors at Oxford at age 30. He is also the author of multiple scholarly articles and publications relating to ancient Egyptian civilization.
His research interests are in Ancient Egyptian art, religion, literature, and biographies; modelling ancient Egyptian society; comparative and anthropological approaches to ancient civilizations.
Publications
- (with Jaromir Malek) Atlas of Ancient Egypt (1980) ISBN 0-87196-334-5
- Fecundity Figures: Egyptian Personification and the Iconology of a Genre (1987) ISBN 0-86516-122-4
- Pyramid Studies and Other Essays Presented to I.E.S. Edwards (1988) ISBN 0-85698-106-0
- (Contributor) Religion in ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice" (1991) ISBN 0801497868
- (Translator of Erik Hornung's), Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: the One and the Many (1993) ISBN 0-8014-1223-4
- Stone Vessels, Pottery and Sealings from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (1994) ISBN 0-900416-63-7
- High Culture and Experience in Ancient Egypt (2000) ISBN 0-485-93010-2
- Fecundity Figures (2001) ISBN 0-900416-78-5
- Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt (2007) ISBN 0198152507
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