- Alan Millard
Alan Ralph Millard (born 1937) is Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow, at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) in the
University of Liverpool .Millard worked on excavations at Tell Nebi Mend (ancient Qadesh-on-the-Orontes) and Tell Rif'at (ancient Arpad) in
Syria , atPetra inJordan , and at theAssyria n capitalNimrud (ancient Kalhu) inIraq . While working at the British Museum 1961-1964, he rediscovered the Epic of Atrahasis, which had lain unrecognised in a drawer for some decades. From 1964 to 1970 he was Librarian at Tyndale Library, Cambridge, and taught Akkadian for a year at theSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in theUniversity of London . In 1970 he was appointed Rankin Lecturer in Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at Liverpool. He was a Fellow at theInstitute of Advanced Studies (IAS) in theHebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984, studying in a team led byYigael Yadin . His main interest lies in Semiticepigraphy , and in editing Akkadian cuneiform tablets and Aramaic inscriptions. Scribal practices in theancient Near East remain a dominant concern for him; the importance he ascribes to this topic stems largely from his belief as an Evangelical Christian in the essential historicity of theBible - a point of view he shares with his colleague at Liverpool, the EgyptologistKenneth Kitchen .Millard is a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London , a member of the Society for Old Testament Studies - and was also, until recently, Vice-Chairman of theBritish School of Archaeology in Iraq .Publications
*"Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood" (with W.G. Lambert), Clarendon Press, Oxford (1969); reprinted Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana, ISBN 1-57506-039-6 (1999)
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/covenant_millard.pdf "Covenant and Communion in First Corinthians"] (1970)
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_ot_millard.html "Approaching the Old Testament"] (1977)
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/daniel1-6_millard.pdf "Daniel 1-6 and History"] (1977)
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/epn_2_millard.html "Methods of Studying the Patriarchal Narratives as Ancient Texts"] (1980)
*"La Statue de Tell Fekherye et son inscription bilingue assyro-araméenne" (with A. Abou-Assaf and P. Bordreuil), Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, Paris (1982)
* [http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/Ted_Hildebrandt/OTeSources/20-Proverbs/Text/Articles/Millard-Scribes-B-S.htm "In Praise of Ancient Scribes"] (1982)
*"Discoveries from the Time of Jesus" (1990)
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_solomon_millard.html "Texts and Archaeology: Weighing the Evidence. The Case for King Solomon"] (1991)
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/article_solomon2_millard.html "Solomon: Text and Archaeology"] (1991)
*"The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire, 910-612 BC", State Archives of Assyria Studies 2, TheNeo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project , University of Helsinki (1994)
* [http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/tb/writing_millard.pdf "The Knowledge of Writing in Iron Age Palestine"] (1995)
*"Discoveries from Bible Times", Lion Publishing, Oxford (1997)
*"Dictionary of the Ancient Near East" (edited, with Piotr Bienkowski), British Museum Press, London (2000)
*"Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus", Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield (2000)
* [http://fontes.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/how_reliable_is_exodus.htm "How Reliable Is Exodus?"] (2000)
* [http://www.basarchive.org/sample/bswbBrowse.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=29&Issue=4&ArticleID=4 "Literacy in the Time of Jesus: Could His Words Have Been Recorded in His Lifetime?"] (2003)ee also
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Assyriology
*Garden of Eden External links
* [http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/organisation/people/research_staff/millard.htm Research Interests & Publication List from SACE website]
* [http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/theo_millard.php Bibliography]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031218.shtml The Alphabet: Its Creation and Development] - appearance on the BBC Radio 4 discussion programme 'In Our Time' (2003)
* [http://www.theturning.org/folder/millardinterview.html "Did Christ Leave a Paper Trail?"] - text of an interview with Millard (2004)
* [http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/reviews/review258.htm "Writing and Ancient Near East Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard"] - a review in "Journal of Hebrew Scriptures" 7 (2007) of thisfestschrift , edited by Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee and Elizabeth Slater, New York and London (2005)
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