John Day (biblical scholar)

John Day (born 13 September 1948) is an English Old Testament scholar. He held the Title of Distinction 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.