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. In his private life, he holds himself to be an Evangelical Christian.

He is most frequently cited by Creationists trying to denounce the theory of the Documentary Hypothesis, which claims that Genesis was written by more than a single author. This is due to his search for evidence to attack the hypothesis, during which he uncovered Egyptian tablets, giving a biographical account in 4 different writing styles, yet which many proclaim had one author (though it is not clear by what justification this proclamation is made).

Kitchen is one of the leading experts of chronology for the Egyptian Third 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 dated is some respects).

Significant Works by Kenneth A. Kitchen

• 1969–1990. Ramesside Inscriptions: Historical and Biographical. 8 vols. Oxford: B. H. Blackwell ltd.
• 1982. Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt. Monumenta Hannah Sheen Dedicata 2. Mississauga: Benben Publications
• 1994. Documentation for Ancient Arabia. Part 1: Chronological Framework and Historical Sources. The World of Ancient Arabia 1. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
• [1996]. The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC). 3rd ed. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Limited
• 2003. On the Reliability of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 0802849601