Alan Ralph Millard

Alan Ralph Millard (born December 1, 1937 in the London Borough of Harrow ) is a British ancient orientalist .

Life

He worked on excavations at Tell Nebi Mend (ancient Kadesh ) and Tell Rif'at (ancient Arpad ) in Syria, in Petra in Jordan and in the Assyrian capital Nimrud in Iraq. During his work at the British Museum from 1961 to 1964, he rediscovered the epic of Atrahasis , which had been hidden in a drawer for several decades. From 1964 to 1970 he was a librarian at the Tyndale Library in Cambridge and taught Akkadian at the School of Oriental and African Studies for a year . In 1970 he was appointed Rankin Lecturer in Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages ​​in Liverpool . He was a 1984 Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and studied in a team led by Yigael Yadin . His main interests are in Semitic epigraphy and the processing of Akkadian cuneiform tablets and Aramaic inscriptions as well as writing practices in the ancient Middle East.

He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Society for Old Testament Studies.

Fonts (selection)

• with John Goldingay : The Fathers of Israel. Abraham - Isaac - Jacob in Bible and History . Giessen 1984, ISBN 3-7655-9037-1 .
• Treasures from biblical times. Their story of discovery - their meaning . Giessen 1994, ISBN 3-7655-5762-5 .
• The time of the first Christians. Excavations - finds - discoveries . Giessen 1994, ISBN 3-7655-5761-7 .
• Parchment and papyrus, tablets and clay. Reading and writing in the time of Jesus . Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7655-9809-7 .

literature

• as editors Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee and Elizabeth Slater: Writing and Ancient Near East Society: Papers in Honor of Alan R. Millard . London 2005, ISBN 0-567-02691-4 .

Web links

• bibliography