Donald B. Redford is an influential Canadian Egyptologist and archaeologist, currently Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Professor Redford has directed a number of important excavations in Egypt, notably at Karnak and Mendes. Along with his wife, he is the director of the Akhenaten Temple Project.

Redford has presented some controversial theories concerning the Bible and history. 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 notes that many of the details in the Exodus story are more consistent with the 7th century BC, long after the time of King David, rather than the era when the event is described as having taken place. This view was expounded upon in The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman.

Publications

• History and Chronology of the 18th dynasty of Egypt: Seven studies. Toronto: University Press, 1967.
• Akhenaten: The Heretic King. Princeton: University Press, 1984
• 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
• Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992
• The Wars in Syria and Palestine of Thutmose III, and History of the Ancient Near East 16. Leiden: Brill, 2003. ISBN 9004129898

External link

• Professor Donald B. Redford - Penn State University department page

Year of birth missing | Living people | Canadian archaeologists | Canadian Egyptologists | Pennsylvania State University faculty | Canadian expatriate academics in the United States

Donald Redford