Richard J. Coggins (10 June 1929 – 19 November 2017) was a British biblical commentator, notable for his contributions to '' The Cambridge Bible Commentaries''.

Life

Coggins graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1950 and after training for the priesthood in the Church of England at St Stephen's House, Oxford served a curacy in the Diocese of Exeter. He spent five years in Oxford as a tutor and chaplain at St Stephen's House before joining

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as a Lecturer in Old Testament studies in 1962. He retired as a senior lecturer in 1994. Among his students during his early years at King's was the future Archbishop

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. Coggins was public preacher at the

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and belonged to St Matthew,

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. In his retirement he moved to Lymington in Hampshire. On 4 March 1994 a day conference was held in honour of Richard Coggins and his colleague

Leslie Houlden James Leslie Houlden (1 March 1929 – 3 December 2022) was a British Anglican priest and academic. He served as Principal of Cuddesdon Theological College from 1970 to 1975, and then, after its amalgamation with Ripon Hall, Principal of Ripon ...

to mark their retirement from King's College London; the speaker in honour of Coggins was the Old Testament scholar Robert P. Carroll. A memorial service for Richard Coggins was held in the chapel of King's College London on 22 May 2018; the address was provided by the Old Testament scholar Paul Joyce.

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 Michael Anthony Knibb (born 1938) is a biblical scholar and retired academic. He was Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies at King's College London from 1997 to 2001. Born 14 December 1938, he completed BD and PhD degrees at King's ...

) (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

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and

Graham N. Stanton Graham Norman Stanton (1940–2009) was a New Zealand biblical scholar who taught at King's College, London, and as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. A New Testament specialist, Stanton's special interests were ...

) (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

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) (2011)

References

1929 births 2017 deaths Bible commentators Academics of King's College London Presidents of the Society for Old Testament Study {{UK-theologian-stub