Education
Gee graduated from Brigham Young University in 1988. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Egyptology at Yale University in 1998, completing his dissertation on ancient Egyptian ritual purity.
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Later, he became a graduate student in Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and received his Master of Arts in Near Eastern Studies in 1991. Gee is the William "Bill" Gay Research Professor of Egyptology at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. Gee has been involved with various professional societies. He is editor of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, and has served on the Society"s committees and board of trustees.
He was also on the board of directors for the Aziz South. Atiya Fund for Coptic Studies at the University of Utah.
He has participated in the International Association for Coptic Studies, the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. Gee has written an overview of Coptic literature.
Because of his expertise in Near Eastern studies and Egyptology, Gee is highly visible in the debate over the authenticity of the Book of Abraham. He has also presented on the Joseph Smith Papyri to the Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR).
One of Gee"s former Yale professors, Robert K. Ritner, later publicly criticized some of Gee"s interpretations of the Joseph Smith Papyri and failure to include Ritner in professional peer reviews of his work, as his other students have.
Based on his own analyses, Ritner has concluded that "the specific source of the Book of Abraham is the "Breathing Permit of Hôr," misunderstood and mistranslated by Joseph Smith.".
Membership
In this role, he is an editor for the Studies in the Book of Abraham series and a member of the editorial board of the Eastern Christian Texts series.
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