May, Johann Heinrich (1)

a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born February 5, 1653. He studied at Wittenberg, was professor of Oriental languages at Giessen, and died September 3, 1719, doctor of theology. He published, De Canone Veteris Test. (Giessen, 1689): — Animadversiones et Supplementa Cocceji Lexicon (Frankfort, 1689, fol.; 3d ed. 1714): — Diss. IV de Sacra Scriptura (ibid. 1690): — Selectiora Vet. Testamenti Oracula Explicanta, etc. (eod.): — Biblia Hebraica (ibid. 1692): — De Lustrationibus et Purificationibus Hebraeorum (ibid. eod.): — De Salis Usu Synbolico (ibid. eod.): — Theologia Davidis (ibid. 1693): — Ebraicae Linguae jusque Accentuationibus Necessitas et Utilitas (ibid. 1696): — Theologia Jeremiana (ibid. 1703): — Theologia Jesaiana (ibid. 1704), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (where 105 titles of his writings are given); Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. Maius; Jicher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. "Majus." (B.P.)