Gleason Leonard Archer Jr. (May 22, 1916 – April 27, 2004) was an American biblical scholar, theologian, educator and author.
He is notable for his work on well-known Bible translations and for his defense of biblical inerrancy.
After graduating from Boston Latin School, he was educated at Harvard University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in classics in 1938.
He then was a professor of Biblical languages at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, from 1948 to 1965.
From 1965 to 1986, Archer served as a professor of Old Testament and semitics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.