J. Barton Payne

John Barton Payne was an American Old Testament scholar.
Payne taught at Wheaton College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School before becoming professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary. He wrote a number of books, including The Theology of the Older Testament – which Christianity Today noted was "the only work of its kind to be produced by an American conservative scholar in two generations" – and Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy. Payne served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1966.
Payne died in a climbing accident in Japan in 1979.