Rev. Prof. Attard read for a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, a Bachelor in Sacred Theology and a Licentiate in Pastoral Theology at the University of Malta. After two years of full-time ministry in a parish, he then moved to Rome where he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, during which time he spent a semester at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He defended his doctoral thesis entitled "The Structural Scheme Ordering Book II of the Psalter (Psalms 42-72): A Synchronic Analysis" in 2013 at the same Institute in Rome after spending several months conducting research at the Ecole Biblique et Archaeologique Francaise de Jerusalem.

In 2013 Attard was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Greek of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Malta. In 2014 he became a part-time Resident Academic, and in 2016 a full-timer. His area of expertise is the Old Testament.

As a full-time Associate Professor, Attard is presently Head of Department of Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Greek and the Dean of the Faculty of Theology. He served as Erasmus+ Coordinator of the Faculty and is presently a collaborator of the Editorial Board of the Polish Collectanea Theologica and of the journal of Theology and Philosophy of Education. He has contributed to the work of the Commission for the Revision of the Bible in Maltese and is an academic member of the Malta Bible Foundation. He has also presented papers at conferences in Leuven, Banská-Bystrica, Warsaw, Bangalore, Athens, Finland, Oxford and Pécs.