George Foot Moore (1851-1931) was an American Old Testament scholar. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania on October 15, 1851. Moore graduated from Yale University (1872) and Union Theological Seminary (1877). Ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1878, Moore pastored the Putnam Presbyterian Church in Zanesville, Ohio until 1883 when he left the ministry for an academic career. Hitchcock Professor of Hebrew at Andover Seminary (1883-1902). Professor of Theology at Harvard (1902-1904). Frothingham Professor of History of Religion at Harvard (1904-1928). Professor Emeritus at Harvard (1928-1931). Died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 16, 1931.