James Luther Mays (July 14, 1921 – October 29, 2015) was an American Old Testament scholar.
He was Cyrus McCormick Professor of Hebrew and the Old Testament Emeritus at Union Presbyterian Seminary, Virginia.
[2][3][4] Mays wrote commentaries on Psalms, Hosea, Amos, and Micah.
[5] 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.
It included contributions from Elizabeth Achtemeier, James Barr, Brevard Childs, Patrick D. Miller, James A. Sanders, and Claus Westermann.