Kenneth Kitchen

Kenneth Anderson Kitchen ( born 1932 ) is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist. He taught at the University of Liverpool and holds it there even after his retirement many lectures.

Kitchen is mainly engaged in research and investigation in the fields of:

  • Egyptology Translations of and commentaries on hieroglyphic inscriptions from the Ramesside Period
  • Researches into the history of ancient Egypt, especially in the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period
  • Compounds of Ancient Egypt with the Middle East and East Africa
  • Ancient Egypt, the Middle East, Hebrew Bible Historical, literary, and cultural background of the Hebrew Bible, based on empirical and factual investigations of that situation in the Middle East

Kitchen has authored many publications in these areas. The best known are concerned with the life and work of Ramses II

Writings (selection )

  • Ancient Orient and Old Testament. Problems and their solutions, education and explanation ( "Ancient Orient and Old Testament "). R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1965.
  • Ramesside Inscriptions: Historical and Biographical. 8 volumes. Blackwell, Oxford from 1969 to 1990.
  • The Bible and its world. The Bible and archeology today. Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove 1980, ISBN 0-87784-797-5 ( Nachdr d ed London 1977).
  • Pharaoh Triumphant. The Life and Times of Ramesses II, Aris & Phillips, Warminster 1982, ISBN 0-85668-215-2.
  • The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt. 1100-650 BC. Aris & Phillips, Warminster 1996, ISBN 0-85668-298-5.
  • Poetry of Ancient Egypt. Åström, Jonsered 1999, ISBN 91-7081-150-4 (texts in ancient Egyptian and English).
  • The Old Testament and the Near East. On the historical reliability of the biblical story ( "On the reliability of the Old Testament "). Brunnen Verlag, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7655-1424-1.
  • Egyptologist
  • Briton
  • Born in 1932
  • Man
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