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Richard Coggins

1929 – 2017

British biblical scholar

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Lived 1929 – 2017 (aged 88). Richard Coggins was a British writer, christian minister, biblical scholar, protestant theologian and university teacher.

Richard J. Coggins (10 June 1929 – 19 November 2017) was a British Bible commentator who contributed to The Cambridge Bible Commentaries.

Coggins was Senior Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at King's College London, but retired by 2001.

Works Samaritans and Jews: The Origins of Samaritanism Reconsidered (1975) The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah (Cambridge Bible Commentary) (1976) The First and Second Books of the Chronicles (Cambridge Bible Commentary) (1976) The First and Second Books of Esdras (Cambridge Bible Commentary) (with Michael Knibb) (1979) Who's Who in the Bible (1981) Israel's Prophetic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Peter R. Ackroyd (edited, with Anthony Phillips and Michael Knibb) (1982) Nahum, Obadiah, Esther: Israel among the Nations (International Theological Commentary) (with S. Paul Re'emi) (1986) Introducing the Old Testament (1990)

A Dictionary of the Bible (with W.R.F. Browning and Graham N. Stanton) (1996) Sirach (Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha) (1998) Exodus (Epworth Commentaries) (2000) Isaiah (Oxford Bible Commentary) (2001) Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries) (with Jin H Han) (2011)

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King's College London
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Richard James Coggins, R. J. Coggins

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Who was Richard Coggins?

British biblical scholar (1929-2017)

When was Richard Coggins born?

Richard Coggins was born on 10 June 1929.

When did Richard Coggins die?

Richard Coggins died on 19 November 2017.

What was Richard Coggins's occupation?

Richard Coggins was a writer, christian minister, biblical scholar, protestant theologian and university teacher.

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Richard Coggins was British.

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· Wikipedia: Richard Coggins

· Wikidata: Q7324820

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