Kenneth Kitchen

Kenneth Anderson Kitchen is Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool, England.

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Egyptology - Archaeology - University of Liverpool - England

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Kitchen is also one of the leading experts of chronology for the EgyptianThird Intermediate Period, and his book The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100?650 BC) is the standard treatment on the subject (though it is now outdated in some respects). Kenneth Kitchen is regarded as one of the foremost experts on the Ramesside Period of the New Kingdom and published a well-respected book on Ramesses the Great in 1982.

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Third Intermediate Period - New Kingdom

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Kenneth Kitchen is also a leading maximalist scholar who advocates a high view of the Old Testament and its historicity. See his work entitled On the Reliability of the Old Testament (2003).

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Kenneth Kitchen is a Evangelical Christian in regards to his religious beliefs. He is frequently cited by conservative Christians in relation to writings rejecting the Documentary Hypothesis, which claims that Genesis was is a composite work of sources labeled J, E, D, and P rather than by Moses as author. Kenneth Kitchen has raised various objections to the documentary hypothesis http://www.equip.org/free/DW035.htmhttp://www.biblestudymanuals.net/moses.htmhttp://www.christian-thinktank.com/aec2.htmlhttp://www.ankerberg.com/Articles/apologetics/AP0404W3.htmhttp://answering-islam.org.uk/Campbell/s3c1.html. For example, Kitchen points to Egyptian tablets giving a biographical account in four different writing styles, yet this text (he claims) is widely accepted as having had one author. Kitchen himself, however, is not strictly traditionalist in terms of authorship of the Pentateuch, pointing out numerous places where the text demand post-Mosaic editing in the Pentateuch (See K. A. Kitchen in He Swore an Oath 91). He also takes a late date of the exodus of Israel from Egypt during the time of Ramesses II in the 13th century BCE, whereas most conservative evangelical Bible scholars date this event to the 15th century BCE

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Evangelical Christian - Documentary Hypothesis - Genesis - Egyptian

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Kenneth Kitchen was invited to the personal professorship due to his practical work in archaeology. He had never received a Ph.D. degree, being quite proud during his career to be "plain Mr Kitchen".

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