Background
Redford, Donald Bruce was born on September 2, 1934 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Cyril Fitzjames and Kathleen Beryl (Coe) Redford.
( Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to t...)
Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. In the vivid and lucid style that we expect from the author of the popular Akhenaten, Redford presents a sweeping narrative of the love-hate relationship between the peoples of ancient Israel/Palestine and Egypt.
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(Thutmose III's (15th c. B.C.) suitable and sensible new p...)
Thutmose III's (15th c. B.C.) suitable and sensible new policy lay the basis for Egypt's empire in Syria and Palestine. Main source of our knowledge on this formative period stems from the so-called Annals of this king in the inner chambers of the great Karnak temple of Amun. Part One contains a new collation of these Annals, along with a hand-copy of the inscription, textual analysis and commentary. In Part Two the reader will find new translations together with commentary on additional sources bearing on the wars: the king's speeches, royal encomia, and private biographies. The volume concludes with an historical commentary, and places the wars in their historical context. A comprehensive, illuminating and accessible assessment of Egypt's policy in Syria and Palestine.
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( In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. ...)
In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and cultural interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations that lay to the south of Egypt. These interactions resulted in the expulsion of the black Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty in 671 B.C. by an invading Assyrian army. Redford traces the development of Egyptian perceptions of race as their dominance over the darker-skinned peoples of Nubia and the Sudan grew, exploring the cultural construction of spatial and spiritual boundaries between Egypt and other African peoples. Redford focuses on the role of racial identity in the formulation of imperial power in Egypt and the legitimization of its sphere of influence, and he highlights the dichotomy between the Egyptians' treatment of the black Africans it deemed enemies and of those living within Egyptian society. He also describes the range of responses―from resistance to assimilation―of subjugated Nubians and Sudanese to their loss of self-determination. Indeed, by the time of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, the culture of the Kushite kings who conquered Egypt in the late eighth century B.C. was thoroughly Egyptian itself. Moving beyond recent debates between Afrocentrists and their critics over the racial characteristics of Egyptian civilization, From Slave to Pharaoh reveals the true complexity of race, identity, and power in Egypt as documented through surviving texts and artifacts, while at the same time providing a compelling account of war, conquest, and culture in the ancient world.
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(This is a classic study into the Egyptians' use of the pa...)
This is a classic study into the Egyptians' use of the past, focusing on the pictures and texts common in Ancient Egypt showing groupings of kings. The author discusses the genesis and development of the "king list" tradition, following a tradition over three millennia. After taking a chronological approach to "king lists", annals and day lists from the Old to New Kingdoms, the book focuses on the Aegyptiaca of Manetho, perhaps the first truly 'historical' approach to Egyptian sources written during the early Ptolemaic period.
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( Here is a striking portrait of Akhenaten, monotheistic ...)
Here is a striking portrait of Akhenaten, monotheistic worshiper of the sun and best-known Egyptian king next to Tutankhamen. Various writers have depicted this strange ruler of the fourteenth century B.C. as a disguised woman or a eunuch, a mentor of Moses, or a forerunner of Christ. Drawing on a vast amount of new evidence from his own excavations, the Director of the Akhenaten Temple Project describes the kingly heretic against the background of imperial Egypt. Donald Redford's work, available for the first time in paperback, shows Akhenaten to be even more fascinating in this context than in earlier, less realistic interpretations.
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Redford, Donald Bruce was born on September 2, 1934 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Son of Cyril Fitzjames and Kathleen Beryl (Coe) Redford.
Bachelor, University Toronto, 1957. Master of Arts, University Toronto, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1965.
Lecturer, Brown U., 1960-1961;
lecturer, U. Toronto, 1961-1964;
assistant professor Egyptian history and language, U. Toronto, 1965-1967;
associate professor, U. Toronto, 1967-1969;
professor, U. Toronto, 1969-1998;
site supervisor, British School Archaeol. Excavations, Jerusalem, 1964-1967;
director, Society Study Egyptian Antiquities Expedition to, Karnak, Egypt, 1970-1972;
director, Akhenaten Temple Project, Luxor, Egypt, since 1972;
research associate, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Royal Ontario Museum
professor classics, Pennsylvania State University, since 1998. Visiting professor Ben Gurion U., Beersheva, Israel, 1986, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996.
Director excavations Mendes and Ted Kedwa, Egypt, since 1991.
(This is a classic study into the Egyptians' use of the pa...)
( Here is a striking portrait of Akhenaten, monotheistic ...)
( Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to t...)
( Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to t...)
( In From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. ...)
(Thutmose III's (15th c. B.C.) suitable and sensible new p...)
Fellow Royal Society of Canada.
Married Susan Pirritano, January 30, 1982. Children: Alexander, Aksel. Children by previous marriage: Christopher, Philip.