Samuel Jacob Schultz was born in Mountain Lake, Minnesota and studied at Bethel College and Harvard Divinity School.
He was an ordained minister, and was a member successively of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, the Baptist General Conference and the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.
[1] Schulz wrote The Old Testament Speaks (1960), as well as the Leviticus and Deuteronomy volumes of the Everyman's Bible Commentary series.
He was editor of Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society from 1962 to 1975.
The Living and Active Word of God: Studies in Honor of Samuel J. Schultz included essays by F. F. Bruce, Millard Erickson, Norman Geisler, Walter Kaiser, Harold Lindsell, Merrill Tenney, and Ronald Youngblood.