Chris Bennett (egyptologist)
Chris Bennett | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 18, 1953 Manchester UK |
| Died | January 10, 2014 (aged 60) San Diego, California USA |
| Spouse |
Anne Jenkins (m. 1996) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Egyptology |
Christopher John Bennett (March 18, 1953 - January 10, 2014)[1] was a British-born American Egyptologist who founded The Egyptian Royal Genealogy Project.
Life
Bennett was educated at the Sydney Grammar School (1970), Sydney University (BSc (Hons) 1975), and University College London (PhD (1980) in Computer Science).[1] He married Anne Jenkins in 1996. He died of cancer while serving as a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego.
Chris Bennett's website on The Egyptian Royal Genealogy Project was mostly devoted to the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The website is maintained by Tyndale House, which moved its material to a sub-website, Egyptian Royal Genealogy.
Publications
Bennett wrote and published numerous papers on Ancient Egyptian, Ptolemaic and Roman chronology in major journals such as the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Egypt and the Levant and Acta Orientalia.
In 2003, Chris Bennett co-edited and self-published a book titled "A Delta-man in Yebu: Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists Electronic Forum No. 1" [2], and in 2011, he authored a major book titled "Alexandria and the Moon: An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt" (Studia Hellenistica 52), published by Peeters Publishers in Leuven.[3]
Articles
- Bennett, Chris (2006). "Genealogy and chronology of the Second Intermediate Period [of Egypt]" (PDF). Egypt and the Levant. 16: 231–243. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-07-15.
- Harry Falk and Chris Bennett (2009). "Macedonian Intercalary Months and the Era of Azes". Acta Orientalia . 70: 197–216. ISSN 0001-6438.
- Bennett, Chris (2002). "A Genealogical Chronology of the Seventeenth Dynasty". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 39: 123–155.
References
- ^ a b "Christopher Bennett Obituary (1953 - 2014) - San Diego, CA". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2025-07-20 – via Legacy.org.
- ^ A. K. Eyma and C. J. Bennett (eds.), A Delta-man in Yebu. Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum, 1, Universal Publishers, 2003
- ^ C. Bennett, Alexandria and the Moon, An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt, Peeters, 2011
External links
- Chris Bennett's detailed website on Egyptian Royal Genealogy: The Ptolemaic Dynasty
- Chris Bennett at Academia.edu