Kenneth Anderson Kitchen | |
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| Born | 1932 (age 91–92) Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Occupation(s) | Bible scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist |
| Title | Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Egyptology |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool |
| Notable works | Ramesside inscriptions: Historical and biographical; The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC); On the reliability of the Old Testament |
Kenneth Anderson Kitchen (born 1932[1]) is a British biblical scholar, Ancient Near Eastern historian, and Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and honorary research fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, England. He specialises in the ancient Egyptian Ramesside Period (i.e., Dynasties 19-20), and the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt, as well as ancient Egyptian chronology, having written over 250 books and journal articles on these and other subjects since the mid-1950s. He has been described by The Times as "the very architect of Egyptian chronology".[2]