Millar Burrows (1889 – 1980) was an American biblical scholar, a leading authority on the Dead Sea scrolls and professor emeritus at Yale Divinity School. Burrows was director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem (now the William F. Albright School of Archaeological Research), and later president of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 

He studied at Cornell University, graduating in 1912. He then attended the Union Theological Seminary, New York to train for ordination, and he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree in 1915.

While working as a minister, Burrows also undertook part-time graduate studies. He studied for his doctorate at Yale University under Charles Cutler Torrey, and he graduated in 1925. His dissertation was titled 'The Literary Relations of Ezekiel'. (+info)

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