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.[citation needed]
James Peter Allen | |
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 Allen in 2015 | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Egyptologist and Professor at Brown University |
Allen formerly served as President of the International Association of Egyptologists,[4] and was later appointed an honorary member.[citation needed]
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
- The Amarna Succession Revised, GM 249 (2016), pp.9-13
- 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)
- Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Vol. I: Unis (Eisenbrauns, 2017)
- Ancient Egyptian Phonology (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects (Eisenbrauns, 2020)
- "Ancient Egyptian Thought" (to be published by the American University in Cairo Press).
References
Sources
- "James P. Allen". Brown University. Retrieved February 26, 2009.