È specializzato in linguistica e storia della religione. Dal 2007 è professore di egittologia presso l'Università Brown (Rhode Island). Nel 2008 è stato eletto Presidente dell'Associazione Internazionale degli egittologi.
Principali pubblicazioni
The Inflection of the Verb in the Pyramid Texts, Undena, Malibu, 1984 Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988 Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000-2010-2014 The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006 The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Society of Biblical Literature, 2005 The Egyptian Coffin Texts: Vol. 8, Middle Kingdom Copies of Pyramid Texts, Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2006 "The Amarna Succession" in Causing His Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J. Murnane, University of Memphis, 2007 The Debate between a Man and His Soul, a Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 44, Brill, 2011 The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study, Cambridge University Press, 2013 Middle Egyptian Literature: Eight Literary Works, Cambridge University Press, 2015 A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Vol. I: Unis, Eisenbrauns, 2017 Ancient Egyptian Phonology, Cambridge University Press, 2020 Coptic: A Grammar of Its Six Major Dialects, Eisenbrauns, 2020
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