James Peter Allen

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.

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 (Yale University Press, 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)
* [http://history.memphis.edu/murnane/Allen%20-%20Amarna%20Succession.pdf 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

ources

* [http://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=stripbooks&field-author=James%20P.%20Allen Amazon Listing]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/a/Allen:James_P=.html Book info]
* [http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1170774357&r=1 Biography]