Mary Ely Lyman (1887 – 1975) was an American professor of religion.

from the Union Seminary where she deepened her interest in teaching the bible which she had started whilst at the YWCA.

Luckily she received letters of recommendation from her Cambridge tutors and that enable her to enroll for her doctorate.

[2] She was already a Professor of Religion at Vassar College where her teaching had resulted in that title in 1923.

[1] She stopped being the professor at Vassar and began to teach religion at Barnard College and the bible at the Union Seminary in 1927.