James Luther Mays

James Luther Mays (July 14, 1921 - October 29, 2015) was an American Old Testament scholar. He is Cyrus McCormick Professor of Hebrew and the Old Testament Emeritus at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Virginia. He served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1986.

Mays has written commentaries on Psalms, Hosea, Amos, and Micah. He was formerly editor of Interpretation.

In 1986, a Festschrift was published in his honor, called The Hermeneutical Quest: Essays in Honor of James Luther Mays on His Sixty-fifth Birthday.

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