Jacob Milgrom (February 1, 1923 – June 5, 2010) was a prominent American Jewish Bible scholar and Conservative rabbi.

Although he accepted the documentary hypothesis, contrary to the classical bible critics, he traced a direct line of development from the Priestly Code (P), to the Holiness Code (H), to the cultic innovations of Ezekiel, to the cultic writings of the Dead Sea sect and finally to Jewish law (halacha) of the Mishnah and Talmud.

[2] Best known for his comprehensive Torah commentaries and work on the Dead Sea Scrolls,[3] he also published extensively on the Book of Ezekiel.

He studied at Brooklyn College and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City.

[4] Jacob Milgrom spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he headed the Department of Near Eastern Studies.