دونالد ردفورد

دونالد ردفورد، دارس ستريكلاند.

دونالد بروس ردفورد (Donald Bruce Redford ، وُلِد 2 سبتمبر 1934) هو عالم مصريات وآثار كندي، currently Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is married to Susan Redford, who is also an Egyptologist currently teaching classes at the university. Professor Redford has directed a number of important excavations in Egypt, notably at Karnak and Mendes.

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 السيرة

Redford received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D from McGill University and the جامعة تورونتو، and was an Assistant/Associate Professor (1962–1969) and full Professor (1969–1998) at the latter. He moved to Pennsylvania State University in 1998.

He was trained in semitics by Wilfred G. Lambert,James Kinnier Wilson, and Abraham Sachs.He learned the Egyptian language under the professors, Richard Anthony Parker, Hans Jakob Polotsky and Ricardo Caminos.From 1964 to 1967 he participated in the Old jerusalem excavations led by Kathleen Kenyon. Redford was the winner of the 1993 "Best Scholarly Book in Archaeology" awarded by the Biblical Archaeology Society for his work Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. In the book he argues that the experiences of the Hyksos in Egypt became a central foundation of myths in Canaanite culture, leading to the story of Moses. He further argues that almost all the toponymic details in the Exodus story reflect conditions in Egypt not earlier than the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, the Saite period, namely the 7th century BC. Whoever, Redford argues, provided the author of Exodus with these details had no access to Egyptian material earlier than that date. This view was expounded upon in The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman.

Redford's work in editing The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, published in 2001, earned the American Library Association's Dartmouth Medal for a reference work of outstanding quality and significance. Since 2006 he is also in the editorial board of RIHAO.

His work in uncovering the foundation of one Akhenaten's temples was the subject of a one-hour 1980 National Film Board of Canada documentary, The Lost Pharaoh: The Search for Akhenaten.

 مشروع معبد أخناتون

The Akhenaten Temple Project is a project encompassing four archaeological expeditions to Egypt and north-east Africa. It has been in operation since 1972. المشروع يديره دونالد وسوزان ردفورد وهو جزء من جامعة ولاية پنسلڤانيا.

It has excavated at Mendes (in the Nile Delta), Karnak, Tel Kedwa (في شمال سيناء) and in the Theban necropolis (mainly investigating the tomb of Parennefer).

Along with his wife Susan Redford, he is the director of the Akhenaten Temple Project.

 المنشورات

• 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

 وصلات خارجية

• Professor Donald B. Redford - Penn State University department page
• Home page of the Akhenaten Temple Project