James Peter Allen (born 1945) is an American Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion. He was curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1990 to 2006.^[1][2] In 2007, he became the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.^[3] In 2008, he was elected president of the International Association of Egyptologists. A graduate of Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago.^{[citation needed]}

Allen formerly served as President of the International Association of Egyptologists,^[4] and was later appointed an honorary member.^{[citation needed]}

• The Inflection of the Verb in the Pyramid Texts (Malibu: Undena, 1984)
• Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988)
• Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (Cambridge: University Press, 2000)
• The Heqanakht papyri. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002)
• The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 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, 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 Amarna Succession Revised, GM 249 (2016), pp.9-13
• Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs 2nd ed. (Cambridge: University Press, 2010)
• The Debate between a Man and His Soul, a Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 44; Leiden and Boston: 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)
• "Ancient Egyptian Thought" (to be published by the American University in Cairo Press).