Alan Ralph Millard 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. Hebrew redirects here. ... 14th century BC diplomatic letter in Akkadian, found in Tell Amarna. ... The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. ...

Millard worked on excavations at Tell Nebi Mend (ancient Qadesh-on-the-Orontes) and Tell Rif'at (ancient Arpad) in Syria, at Petra in Jordan, and at the Assyrian capital Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in Iraq. As a student in London, he rediscovered the Epic of Atrahasis, which had lain unrecognised in a drawer at the British Museum for some decades. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984, studying in a team led by Yigael Yadin. His main interest lies in Semitic epigraphy, and in editing Akkadian cuneiform tablets and Aramaic inscriptions. Scribal practices in the ancient 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 historicity of the Bible - a point of view he shares with his colleague at Liverpool, the Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen. Kadesh (the most popular spelling; more accurately Qadesh) was an ancient city of the Levant, located on the Orontes River, probably identical to the remains at Tell Nebi Mend, about 24 km southwest of Hims (ca. ... Arpad was a city located in north-western Syria. ... The Treasury at Petra Petra (from petra, rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, al-Bitrā) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. ... For other uses, see Assyria (disambiguation). ... Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The 18th century BC Akkadian Atra-Hasis epic, named after its human hero, contains both a creation and a flood account, and is one of three surviving Babylonian flood stories. ... The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2000 to become the Great Court, surrounding the original Reading Room. ... The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of Israels oldest, largest, and most important institutes of higher learning and research. ... Yigael Yadin (March 20, 1917 - June 28, 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). ... Epigraphy (Greek, επιγραφή - written upon) is the study of inscriptions engraved into stone or other permanent materials, or cast in metal, the science of classifying them as to cultural context and date, elucidating them and assessing what conclusions can be deduced from them. ... Akkadian (lišānum akkadītum) was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language family) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians. ... The cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. ... Aramaic is a group of Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history. ... The word evangelicalism usually refers to religious practices and traditions which are found in conservative, almost always Protestant Christianity. ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ... Egyptology is the study of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian antiquities and is a regional and thematic branch of the larger disciplines of ancient history and archeology. ... Emeritus Professor Kenneth A. Kitchen (University of Liverpool publicity photograph, 2006). ...

Millard is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London - and was also, until recently, Vice-Chairman of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society, based in the United Kingdom, concerned with the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries. This includes archaeology, architectural history, art history, conservation, heraldry, anthropology, and ecclesiastical studies. ... The British School of Archaeology in Iraq is the only body in Britain devoted to research into the ancient civilizations and languages of Mesopotamia. ...

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)
• Covenant and Communion in First Corinthians (1970)
• Approaching the Old Testament (1977)
• Daniel 1-6 and History (1977)
• 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)
• In Praise of Ancient Scribes (1982)
• Discoveries from the Time of Jesus (1990)
• Texts and Archaeology: Weighing the Evidence. The Case for King Solomon (1991)
• Solomon: Text and Archaeology (1991)
• The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire, 910-612 BC, State Archives of Assyria Studies 2, The Neo-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)
• How Reliable Is Exodus? (2000)
• Literacy in the Time of Jesus: Could His Words Have Been Recorded in His Lifetime? (2003)

In the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, the following works are published: // State archives of Assyria cuneiform texts The following works are published in the series: State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts: 1997–SAACT-Volume I..---The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, by Simo Parpola, 1997. ...

See also

• Assyriology
• Garden of Eden

Assyriology is the historical and archaeological study of ancient Mesopotamia. ... The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach, a 16th century German depiction of Eden The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Ēden, גַּן עֵדֶן) is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man—Adam—and woman—Eve—lived after they were created by God. ...

External links

• 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)
• Review of: P. Bienkowski, C. Mee, and E. Slater (eds.) 2005. Writing and Ancient Near East Society: Papers in Honor of Alan R. Millard. New York and London. In: Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 7 (2007)