Alan Millard, one of Britain’s leading epigraphers and an expert on biblical languages, passed away in Leamington Spa, England, on June 6. He was 86 years old. Millard was Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at the University of Liverpool. Born in Middlesex, his experiences as a youth investigating Britain’s Roman ruins begot a life-long interest in history and archaeology. He first studied Semitic languages at the University of Oxford’s Magdalen College and then earned his master’s from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 1967. The greatest of Millard’s wide-ranging […]
