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Alan Ralph MillardFSA (1 December 1937 – 6 June 2024) was a Britishorientalist who was Rankin Professor ofHebrew and AncientSemitic languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow (Ancient Near East), at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE) in theUniversity of Liverpool.^[1][2]

Millard worked on excavations atTell Nebi Mend (ancientQadesh-on-the-Orontes) and Tell Rif'at (ancientArpad) in Syria, atPetra in Jordan, and at theAssyrian capitalNimrud (ancient Kalḫu) in Iraq. While working at theBritish Museum 1961–1964, he rediscovered the Epic ofAtrahasis, which had lain unrecognised in a drawer for some decades. From 1964 to 1970, he was Librarian atTyndale House, Cambridge, and taughtAkkadian 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 the University of 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 lay in Semiticepigraphy, and in editing Akkadiancuneiform tablets andAramaic inscriptions. Scribal practices in theancient Near East remained a dominant concern for him; the importance he ascribed to this topic stems largely from his belief as anEvangelical Christian in the essentialhistoricity of the Bible – a point of view he shared with his colleague at Liverpool, theEgyptologistKenneth Kitchen.

Millard was a Fellow of theSociety of Antiquaries of London, a member of theSociety for Old Testament Study – and was also Vice-Chairman of theBritish School of Archaeology in Iraq. He died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 86.^[3]

• 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)
• Millard, Alan. R. (1970)."Covenant and Communion in First Corinthians"(PDF). In Gasque, W. Ward; Martin, Ralph P. (eds.).Apostolic history and the gospel: Biblical and historical essays presented to F. F. Bruce on his 60th birthday. Exeter: Paternoster. pp. 242–8.ISBN 0-85364-098-X. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved29 January 2007.
• Millard, Alan. R. (January 1977)."Approaching the Old Testament".Themelios.2 (2):34–9.
• Daniel 1–6 and HistoryArchived 2 May 2013 at theWayback Machine (1977)
• Millard, Alan. R. (1980)."Methods of Studying the Patriarchal Narratives as Ancient Texts". In Millard, Alan R.; Wiseman, D. J. (eds.).Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press. pp. 43–58.ISBN 0-85111-743-0.
• 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)
• Millard, Alan. R. (1982). "In Praise of Ancient Scribes".Biblical Archaeologist.45 (3):145–53.doi:10.2307/3209809.JSTOR 3209809.S2CID 14435209. Reprinted as:Millard, Alan. R. (1982)."In Praise of Ancient Scribes".Bible and Spade.2:33–46. Archived fromthe original on 13 February 2007. Retrieved21 February 2007.
• Discoveries from the Time of Jesus (1990)
• Millard, Alan. R. (1991)."Texts and Archaeology: Weighing The Evidence".Palestine Exploration Quarterly:19–27.doi:10.1179/peq.1991.123.1.19.
• Millard, Alan. R. (1991)."Solomon: Text and Archaeology".Palestine Exploration Quarterly.123 (2):117–8.doi:10.1179/peq.1991.123.2.117.
• The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire, 910–612 BC, State Archives of Assyria Studies 2, TheNeo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, University of Helsinki (1994)
• 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)
• Millard, Alan. R. (2000)."How Reliable Is Exodus?".Biblical Archaeology Review.26 (4):50–7. Archived fromthe original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved21 February 2007.
• Millard, Alan. R. (2003)."Literacy in the time of Jesus: Could his words have been recorded in his lifetime?".Biblical Archaeology Review.29 (4):36–45. Archived fromthe original on 24 August 2007.

• Assyriology
• Garden of Eden

• Research Interests & Publication List from SACE website
• Bibliography
• The Alphabet: Its Creation and Development – appearance on the BBC Radio 4 discussion programme 'In Our Time' (2003)
• Did Christ Leave a Paper Trail? – text of an interview with Millard (2004)
• Writing and Ancient Near East Society: Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard – a review inJournal of Hebrew Scriptures 7 (2007) of thisfestschrift, edited by Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee and Elizabeth Slater, New York and London (2005)

• 1937 births
• 2024 deaths
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• Academics of SOAS University of London
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• English Assyriologists
• British biblical scholars
• Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
• Christian Hebraists
• Employees of the British Museum
• Old Testament scholars

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