John Vivian Mortland Sturdy (27 October 1933 – 6 July 1996) was an English clergyman and academic.
[1] He married Jill Evans in 1961, and they had twelve children including nine adoptions.
[3] He wrote the commentary on the Book of Numbers for The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible; a review in the Scottish Journal of Theology suggested that he maintained "a good balance between being informative and being gently critical of some of the values expressed in the text.
Sturdy argued that the books of the New Testament were written later than the scholarly consensus believed.
[5] Sturdy's unfinished work was later published as Redrawing the Boundaries: The Date of Early Christian Literature (2007).