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Professor
Ph. D., Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1988
M.A., Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1986
B.A., Classics, University of
Wisconsin at Madison, 1977
Richard Jasnow is a specialist in the
Late Period of Egypt, with a particular interest in Demotic Egyptian, the
cursive form of the Egyptian script employed from about 750 B.C. through
450 A.D. While he is principally engaged in the publication of Late Period
Demotic literary texts, he has also worked on legal and economic documents.
Before arriving at Hopkins, he taught at the
Institut für Ägyptologie (Universität Würzburg,) and was also a senior epigrapher (and
associate director) of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of
the University
of Chicago for about
five years. He is the author of A
Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135), Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 52
(The Oriental Institute, 1992), and the co-author (with George R. Hughes),
of The Oriental Institute Hawara Papyri: An Egyptian Family Archive from the Time
of Alexander the Great and the Early Ptolemies
(Chicago, 1997). He has recently co-edited, with Professor Raymond
Westbrook, a volume of papers: Security
for Debt in Ancient Near Eastern Law (Brill, 2001).
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