James Hardy Ropes (September 3, 1866 – January 7, 1933) was an American theologian.
[1][2] He graduated from Harvard College in 1889 and was an instructor there from 1895 to 1898 and an assistant professor until 1903.
[3] He occupied the Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School starting in 1910.
[5] He led the funeral of Henry Bradford Endicott, for whom Ropes' boss, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, served as a pall bearer with Governors Calvin Coolidge and Samuel W.
[6] Volume three of The Beginnings of Christianity was a presentation of Ropes' textual evidence for Acts.