Edward Frank Wente (born 1930) is an American professor emeritus of Egyptology and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1959 and lectured there from 1963 to 1996.[1] He is also a longstanding member of the Oriental Institute, Chicago.[1][2] Wente also republished and retranslated the volumnious "Late Ramesside Letters" correspondence from Deir el-Medina in 1967.[3] One of his major works is Letters from Ancient Egypt (1990), published by the Scholarly Press.[2]
In 1999, the Oriental Institute published a collection of essays by Egyptologists in honor of Edward Wente "Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente".[4] His wife, Dr. Leila Ibrahim Wente (1926 -2018), was also an Egyptologist.
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- ^ a b c University of Chicago. Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations[permanent dead link]. Retrieved on 08-03-2009.
- ^ a b c The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. (2009). WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE ROYAL MUMMIES. Retrieved on 01-11-2024.
- ^ Edward Wente, Late Ramesside Letters PDF, SAOC 33, 1967, University of Chicago Press
- ^ Edited by Emily Teeter, John A. Larson. Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente PDF. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
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Further references
- Wente, Edward F. (1990). Letters from Ancient Egypt. Edited by Edmund S. Meltzer. Translated by Edward F. Wente. Atlanta: Scholars Press, Society of Biblical Literature. ISBN 1-55540-472-3.
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