Leonard H. Lesko (born 1938) was Chairman of the Department of

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at Brown University and held the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professorship. In 1961, he received a B.A. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago, and his masters in 1964. In 1969, he received a Ph.D. in " Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations-Egyptology" at the

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. Prior to joining the Brown faculty in 1982, he held various teaching positions at

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. Lesko is an expert in

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including Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian,

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, and Coptic. He has also studied the Coffin Texts, the '' Book of the Dead'' and Deir el-Medina. Along with his wife, Barbara Lesko, he edited ''A Dictionary of Late Egyptian''.

Publications

* ''King Tut's Wine Cellar'' (1977)) * ''Egyptological Studies in Honor of Richard A. Parker: Presented on the Occasion of His 78th Birthday'' (editor) (1986) * ''A Dictionary of Late Egyptian'' (1990)
The ancient Egyptian Book of two ways
published 1977 * ''Ancient Egyptian and Mediterranean Studies in Memory of William A. Ward'' * ''Exodus: The Egyptian Evidence''-by Brown University, Ernest S. Frerichs, William G. Dever, Leonard H. Lesko * ''Index of the Spells on Egyptian Middle Kingdom Coffins and Related Documents'' * ''Joseph Lindon Smith: Paintings from Egypt - An Exhibition'', Brown University, October 8-November 21, 1998 Barbara S. Lesko, Diana W. Larkin, Joseph Lindon Smith, Brown University Dept. of Egyptology * ''Pharaoh's Workers: The Villagers of Deir el Medina'' * ''Religion in Ancient Egypt : Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice'' * ''Through A Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt''bookfinder
retrieved 20/09/2011

References

External links

Brown University page

Richard N. Ostling article on Lesko
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lesko, Leonard H. 1938 births Living people American Egyptologists Loyola University Chicago alumni University of Chicago alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty Brown University faculty