Description: The first comprehensive study of how the phonology and grammar of ancient Egyptian changed over four millennia of language history.
Brief description: James P. Allen is the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. He is a former curator of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and president of the International Association of Egyptologists. His previous publications include Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (1989), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (2000, 2010), The Heqanakht Papyri (2002), The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (2005) and The Debate between a Man and His Soul (2010).
Review Quotes: ''This new history of Egyptian-Coptic--the first synthesis of its kind in nearly two decades--presents a rich material and many innovative analyses, benefiting from the author's profound expertise in the earlier textual corpora of Egyptian.'' --Dr. Andréas Stauder, Swiss National Science Foundation / University of Basel