Richard Coggins

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)