Christopher John Bennett (March 18, 1953 - January 10, 2014) was a British-born American Egyptologist who founded The Egyptian Royal Genealogy Project.
Life Bennett was educated at the Sydney Grammar School (1970), Sydney University (BSc (Hons) 1975), and University College London (PhD (1980) in Computer Science). He married Anne Jenkins in 1996. He died of cancer while serving as a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego.
Chris Bennett's website on The Egyptian Royal Genealogy Project was mostly devoted to the Ptolemaic Dynasty. The website is maintained by Tyndale House, which moved its material to a sub-website, Egyptian Royal Genealogy.
Publications Bennett wrote and published numerous papers on Ancient Egyptian, Ptolemaic and Roman chronology in major journals such as the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Egypt and the Levant and Acta Orientalia.
In 2003, Chris Bennett co-edited and self-published a book titled "A Delta-man in Yebu: Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists Electronic Forum No. 1",A. K. Eyma and C. J. Bennett (eds.), A Delta-man in Yebu. Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum, 1, Universal Publishers, 2003 and in 2011, he authored a major book titled "Alexandria and the Moon: An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt" (Studia Hellenistica 52), published by Peeters Publishers in Leuven.C. Bennett, Alexandria and the Moon, An Investigation into the Lunar Macedonian Calendar of Ptolemaic Egypt, Peeters, 2011
Finally, in 1996, Chris Bennett published—and later updated—his paper in the Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies titled "Temporal Fugues" which refuted David Rohl's criticisms of conventional Egyptian chronology which was placed online with permission of 'The Octavian Society' of California, USA.Temporal Fugues, Bennett, C.J. 1996 Temporal Fugues. Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies 13 (1996) The link downloads Bennett's article in MS Word format
Articles
Chris Bennett, Temporal Fugues, Journal of Ancient and Medieval Studies 13 (1996) The link downloads Bennett's article in MS Word format
References
External links
Chris Bennett's detailed website on Egyptian Royal Genealogy: The Ptolemaic Dynasty Chris Bennett at Academia.edu