{{short description|Old Testament scholar}} '''Peter Kyle McCarter Jr.''' (born 1945) is an Old Testament scholar. He is William Foxwell Albright Professor Emeritus in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University.<ref>{{cite web|title=P. Kyle McCarter, Jr|date=April 2016 |url=http://neareast.jhu.edu/directory/p-kyle-mccarter-jr/|publisher=Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=18 August 2016}}</ref> McCarter is best known for his work on the Books of Samuel:<ref>{{cite news|last1=Weingarten|author-link=Gene Weingarten|first1=Gene|title=Frankincense and mirth|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-frankincense-and-mirth/2012/11/21/4799f446-2ce2-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story.html|accessdate=18 August 2016|newspaper=Washington Post|date=2002}}</ref> he wrote volumes on I and II Samuel for the Anchor Bible Series.
==Book published in his honor== In 2022, Biblical scholars published a book in his honor titled "Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20250211172749/https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/9780884145165_OA.pdf Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr.], (edited by Christopher Rollston, Susanna Garfein, and Neal H. Walls) ANEM 27, 2022 Society of Biblical Literature (SBL Press), Atlanta 2022 (from the Official [http://www.sbl-site.org SBL website])</ref>
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