Introduction

Early Life

Scoggin…took his first de­grees in law at the Sa­pi­en­za Uni­ver­si­ty of Rome and in theo­lo­gy at the Wal­den­si­an Theo­lo­gic­al Se­min­ary in Rome.

Academic Career

He be­came pro­fess­or for Old Testament, He­brew, and Greek at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bu­enos Air­es, the He­brew Uni­ver­si­ty of Je­ru­sa­lem and then un­til his re­tire­ment at the Wal­den­si­an Th­eo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­nary and at the Sa­pi­en­za. Among oth­er things he was a fel­low at Prince­ton Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, at St John’s Col­lege, Camb­ridge, and at the He­brew Uni­ver­si­ty.

He lec­tured wide­ly and pub­lished va­ri­ous ar­ticles and books. He was a mem­ber of the edi­tor­ial board of He­noch, Ve­tus Tes­ta­ment­um and of Zeit­schrift für die Alt­tes­ta­ment­liche Wis­sen­schaft.

In 2007, he was award­ed the Burkitt Medal by the Bri­tish Ac­ad­emy. It is grant­ed in re­cog­ni­tion of spe­cial service to Bib­li­cal Stu­dies.

Works

• (2001) Israel in the Bib­li­cal Per­iod: In­sti­tu­tions, Fes­tiv­als, Ce­re­mo­nies, Ri­tu­als (transl. John Bow­den, Ed­in­burgh: T. & T. Clark, p. xiii, 209, ISBN 0-567-08811-1)
• (1999) An In­tro­duc­tion to the His­to­ry of Is­rael and Ju­dah (transl. John Bow­den, 3rd ed., Lon­don, Eng­land.: SCM, p. xxii, 442, ISBN 0-334-02788-8)
• (1989) Introduction to the Old Tes­ta­ment: From Its Ori­gins to the Clos­ing of the Al­ex­an­dri­an Ca­non (transl. John Bow­den, 3rd ed., Phi­la­del­phia: West­min­ster, p. xxxvi, 508, ISBN 0-664-21385-5)
• (1987) The Pro­phet Amos: A Trans­la­tion and Com­ment­ary (transl. John Bow­den, London: SCM, p. xix, 150, ISBN 0-334-00053-X)
• (1987) Judges: A Com­men­ta­ry (transl. John Bow­den, 2nd ed., Lon­don: SCM, p. xx, 309, ISBN 0-334-02108-1)
• (1975) Old Tes­ta­ment and Ori­en­tal Stu­dies (Rome: Bib­li­cal In­sti­tute, p. xv, 256)
• (1972) Joshua: A Com­men­ta­ry (transl. R.A. Wil­son, Lon­don: SCM / Phi­la­del­phia: West­min­ster, p. xvii, 245)
• (1965) When the Judg­es Ruled (Lon­don: Unit­ed So­ci­ety for Chris­tian Li­ter­ature—Lut­ter­worth Press / New York: As­so­ci­ation Press, p. 80)

Biography cour­te­sy of Wi­ki­pe­dia, 30 Aug 2024, Cre­at­ive Com­mons Li­cense BY-SA 4.0