Donald Bruce Redford

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Donald Bruce Redford (born September 2, 1934 ) is a Canadian Egyptologist and archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Histories at Pennsylvania State University . He is married to Susan Redford , who is also an Egyptologist.

Redford studied at McGill University and the University of Toronto . He directed several important excavations, particularly in Karnak and Mendes . Since 1975 he has also headed the Akhenaten Temple Project , which aims, among other things, to reconstruct the arrangement of the Talatat blocks from which the temples and buildings were constructed in the Amarna period, especially under Akhenaten .

1993 won Redford the prize for the best scientific book in archeology from the Biblical Archeology Society for his work Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. In this book, he argues that the Hyksos experience became the central foundation of myths in Canaanite culture that led to the tale of Moses . He also argues that the topographical details in the Exodus narrative represented the situation of Egypt during the 26th Dynasty . Thus, for the authors of the Exodus, no earlier sources than those of the 7th century BC. Were available.

Fonts

  • History and Chronology of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt: Seven Studies . Toronto University Press, 1967.
  • A Study of the Biblical Story of Joseph (Gen 37-50) . Leiden: Brill, 1970.
  • Akhenaten: the Heretic King . Princeton University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-691-03567-9
  • Pharaonic King-Lists, Annals, and Day-Books: a Contribution to the Study of the Egyptian Sense of History . (SSEA Publication IV) Mississauga, Ontario: Benben Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-920168-08-6
  • Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times . Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-691-00086-7
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Editor). Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-510234-7
  • The Wars in Syria and Palestine of Thutmose III . (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 16) Leiden: Brill, 2003. ISBN 90-04-12989-8
  • Slave to Pharaoh: the Black Experience of Ancient Egypt . Johns Hopkins University Press , 2004. ISBN 0-8018-7814-4
  • City of the Ram-Man: the Story of Ancient Mendes . Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-691-14226-5
  • The Oxford Guide: Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology (editor), Berkley, 2003, ISBN 0-425-19096-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donald B. Redford, Susan Redford et al .: The Akhenaten Temple Project (accessed March 2016)
  2. ^ Princeton University Press: Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times (accessed March 2016).
  3. ^ Donald B. Redford: Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton University Press, 1992 pp. 408-429.
personal data
SURNAME Redford, Donald Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian Egyptologist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1934