James Alan Montgomery

James Alan Montgomery (June 13, 1866 – February 6, 1949) was an American Episcopal clergyman, Oriental scholar, and biblical scholar who was a professor of the Old Testament and Semitics (Hebrew and Aramaic) at the Philadelphia Divinity School and the University of Pennsylvania.

[1][2] He also served as president of the American Oriental Society and Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.

He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887, and the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1890.

[1] An Episcopal clergyman, Oriental scholar, and biblical scholar, Montgomery was a professor of Old Testament and Semitics (Hebrew and Aramaic), first at the Philadelphia Divinity School, and later, from 1913 to 1948, at the University of Pennsylvania.

[1][4] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1925.