The Bible and the Religions of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece

Robert Ignatius Letellier was educated in Grahamstown, Cambridge, Salzburg, Rome and Jerusalem. He is a member of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Salzburg Centre for Research in the Early English Novel, the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, and the Institute for Continuing Education at Madingley Hall, Cambridge. His publications number over 100 items, including books and articles on the early English novel, the Gothic novel, Sir Walter Scott, the Bible, and European culture. He has specialized in Romantic opera, especially the work of Giacomo Meyerbeer and Fromental Halévy, the opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber and Adolphe Adam, the Operetta, Romantic Ballet, and Ludwig Minkus.