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), The Heqanakht Papyri (2002), The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (2005), The Debate between a Man and his Soul (2010), The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study (2013), and three editions of Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 3rd edition (2014).
Introduction
Text 1. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor
Text 2. The Story of Sinuhe
Text 3. The Loyalist Instruction
Text 4. The Instructions of Kagemni's Father and Ptahhotep
Text 5. The Discourses of the Eloquent Peasant
Text 6. The Debate between a Man and his Soul
Text 7. The Herdsman's Tale
Text 8. Hymns to Senwosret III.
