John Barton Payne (12 September 1922 â 5 July 1979) 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 (Zondervan, 1962) â which Christianity Today noted was "the only work of its kind to be produced by an American conservative scholar in two generations" â and Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy (Hodder and Stoughton, 1973). Payne served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1966.
Payne died in a climbing accident in Japan in 1979.