title: James Peter Allen
text: # James Peter Allen
  
  James Peter Allen (nacido en 1945) es un egiptólogo estadounidense, especializando en lengua y religión egipcias. Fue curator (conservador) de Arte egipcio en el Metropolitan Museum of Art, de 1990 a 2006. En 2007, profesor Wilbour de egiptología en la Brown University. En 2008, fue elegido presidente de la International Association of Egyptologists (Asociación Internacional de egiptólogos).
  
  # James Peter Allen
  ## Publicaciones
  
  * 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
  * 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)