Question: James Alan Montgomery (June 13, 1866 – February 6, 1949) was an American Episcopalian clergyman, Oriental scholar, and Biblical scholar who was professor of Old Testament and Semitics, he served as president of the American Oriental Society, it was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on which date?
Context: The American Oriental Society was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on September 7, 1842.  It is one of the oldest learned societies in America, and is the oldest devoted to a particular field of scholarship. Charles Lee Feinberg (June 12, 1909 – August 22, 1995) was an American biblical scholar and professor of Semitics and Old Testament.  He was an authority on the Jewish history, languages and customs of the Old Testament and biblical prophecies. Gregory K. Beale (born 1949 in Dallas, Texas) (also known as G. K. Beale) is a biblical scholar, currently a Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.  He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.  He has made a number of contributions to conservative Biblical hermeneutics, particularly in the area of the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament.  He served as the president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 2004.  In 2013, he was elected by Westminster Theological Seminary to be the first occupant of the J. Gresham Machen Chair of New Testament.  At his inauguration he delivered an address titled "The Cognitive Peripheral Vision of Biblical Writers". Sophia Elizabeth (Armstrong) Reed (May 16, 1842 – June 18, 1915) was an American Oriental scholar and author whose books were widely used as college textbooks in various universities worldwide for Oriental studies.  Hers were, at the time, the only works by a woman accepted by the Philosophical Society of Great Britain.  She was born in Winthrop, Maine. James Alan Montgomery (June 13, 1866 – February 6, 1949) was an American Episcopalian clergyman, Oriental scholar, and Biblical scholar who was professor of Old Testament and Semitics (Hebrew and Aramaic), first at the Philadelphia Divinity School, and later, from 1913 to 1948, at the University of Pennsylvania.  He served as president of the American Oriental Society and Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. Marten Hendrik Woudstra (July 23, 1922 – October 3, 1991) was a Dutch-born evangelical theologian, biblical scholar, seminary professor, and minister of the Christian Reformed Church.  He served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society and as chairman of the Old Testament committee for the translation of the New International Version of the Bible.  Woudstra's most notable contribution to evangelical scholarship is the publication of his commentary on the Book of Joshua in the "New International Commentary on the Old Testament". Johann Gottlob Carpzov (26 September 1679, Dresden – 7 April 1767, Lübeck) was a German Christian Old Testament scholar, a nephew of Johann Benedict Carpzov II and a son of Samuel Benedict Carpzov.  He was the most famous and most important Biblical scholar of the Carpzov family.  He was titular professor of Oriental languages at Leipzig from 1719 to 1730, and preacher and theologian until his death.  Like his uncle, he was an opponent of the Pietists.  His critical works are: "Introductio in Libros Vet.  Test."  1721, 4th ed.  1757; "Critica Sacra" (I. Original text, II.  Versions, III.  Reply to Whiston), 1728; "Apparatus Historico-Criticus Antiquitatum et Codicis Sacri et Gentis Hebrææ", 1748.  The "Apparatus" is in the form of annotations to Thomas Goodwin's "Moses and Aaron", and appended to it are dissertations on "The Synagogue Treated with Honor" (a statement of what the Christian Church has retained of ancient Jewish customs), on "The Charity System of the Ancient Jews" (discussion of the question whether צדקה in the Old Testament ever means "alms"), and others. Samuel Lucien Terrien (March 27, 1911- February 6, 2002) was a French-American Protestant theologian and biblical scholar.  A professor at Union Theological Seminary for thirty-six years, he is known for his biblical commentary, particularly for his scholarly contributions to the study of Job and the Psalms in the Old Testament and for his book, "The Elusive Presence" (1978), in which he presented a new theology of the presence and absence of God written largely in the context of cult, not covenant.  It incorporated both Old and New Testaments in a broader ecumenical context and introduced a way for future theologians to ask how the presence of God is experienced by engaging the wisdom traditions to explore how ‘empirical observation can testify to a divine presence in human life just as visionary experiences can.' Wolfgang Max Wilhelm Roth (W. M. W. Roth) (1 October 1930 – 24 November 2013) was a Pastor of the United Church of Canada and an Old Testament scholar with major contribution to the growth of Old Testament scholarship for more than half a century from 1959 through 2013.  Roth was a scholar in the line of Gerhard von Rad acknowledging the influence of the master-specialist of Old Testament ever since his study days at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.  Roth's writings drew the attention of the world of Old Testament scholarship through his writings which began appearing in journals like "Catholic Biblical Quarterly", "Journal of Biblical Literature", "Vetus Testamentum", theological commentaries and other theological treatises. The Journal of the American Oriental Society is a quarterly academic journal published by the American Oriental Society since 1843.
Answer: September 7, 1842