John Day (born 13 September 1948) is an English
Old Testament scholar. He held the
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of Professor of Old Testament Studies in the
Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford (2004–13). He is the editor of ''In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel'' (2004) and wrote ''God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea'' (1985), ''Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan'' (2000), and ''From Creation to Babel: Studies in Genesis 1–11'' (2013). He is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies and was Fellow, Tutor in Theology, and Dean of Degrees at
Lady Margaret Hall.
He was elected to an emeritus fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall in 2013.
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Lady Margaret Hall
1948 births
20th-century Christian biblical scholars
21st-century Christian biblical scholars
English biblical scholars
English male non-fiction writers
Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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Old Testament scholars
Religion academics
Presidents of the Society for Old Testament Study
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