Alan Millard

Alan Ralph Millard (born 1937) is Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow (Ancient Near East), 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, at Petra in Jordan, and at the Assyrian capital Nimrud (ancient Kalḫu) in Iraq. 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 the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London. In 1970 he was appointed Rankin Lecturer in Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at Liverpool. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) 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 essential historicity of the Bible – a point of view he shares with his colleague at Liverpool, the Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen.

Alan Millard (politician)

Alan Major Millard (29 April 1856 – 6 July 1915) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in Langport in Somerset to accountant James Millard and Margaret Major. He was admitted as a solicitor in England in 1879 and practised in Bristol before coming to Australia in 1890. He had married Florence Hawkins on 19 April 1881 at Gloucester. He worked at Captains Flat before achieving the relevant qualifications to practise in 1893, settling at Bungendore. In 1904 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Queanbeyan, but he was removed from office following a fraud conviction in 1906. Millard did not return to politics, and died in Sydney in 1915.

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