Nació en Aberdeen, Escocia, en 1932.^[2]​^[3]​ Falleció, soltero, el 6 de febrero de 2025 a los 93 años.^[1]​

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• Ramesside Inscriptions, Translations Volume III, Ramesses II, His Contemporaries, Oxford-Blackwell, 2001, ISBN 0-631-18428-7;
• Ramesside Inscriptions, Translations: Merenptah and the Late Nineteenth Century, Blackwell Pub, 2003, ISBN 0-631-18429-5;
• On the Reliability of the Old Testament, Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003, ISBN 0-8028-4960-1.