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George Milligan
1860–1934
A Scottish minister and biblical scholar, he wrote clearly and accessibly about the New Testament while also shaping church and university life in Scotland. His work is especially remembered for careful scholarship on early Christian texts and language.
1 Audiobook
Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
by George Milligan, Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney, J. Morgan (James Morgan) Gibbon, J. G. (John Gershom) Greenhough, H. Elvet (Howell Elvet) Lewis, Alfred Rowland, David Rowlands, W. J. (William John) Townsend
About the author
Born in 1860, George Milligan was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland and a respected New Testament scholar. He studied at Aberdeen and later taught as professor of divinity and biblical criticism at the University of Glasgow. In church life, he also served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1923.
Milligan is best known for his work on the language and background of the New Testament. He wrote books such as The New Testament Documents: Their Origin and Early History and, with James Hope Moulton, helped produce The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, a major reference work that drew on papyrus discoveries to shed light on biblical Greek.
His writing combines academic care with a practical, readable style, which helps explain why his books have remained useful to students, ministers, and interested general readers. He died in 1934.