James Peter Allen (born 1945) is an American
Egyptologist
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religiou ...
, specializing in language and religion. He was curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1990 to 2006. In 2007, he became the
Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at
Brown University.
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
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...
.
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
The Heqanakht papyri or Heqanakht letters (also spelled Hekanakht) are a group of papyri dating to the early Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt that were found in the tomb complex of Vizier Ipi. Their find was located in the burial chamber of a s ...
''. (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)
* ''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
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1945 births
Living people
American Egyptologists
People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Brown University faculty
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