Jan Alberto Soggin (M / Italy, 1926-2010), scholar
Jan Alberto Soggin (b.1926) is an Italian scholar. Professor emeritus at the University of Rome, Italy.
Biography
Laurea (University of Rome). Professor of Old Testament at the University of Buenos Aires, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then until his retirement at the Waldensian Theological Seminary and the University of Rome.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Introduzione all’Antico Testamento, dalle origini alla chiusura del Canone alessandrino (Brescia 1968; 19742; 19793; 19874)
- Introduction to the Old Testament, from Its Origins to the Closing of the Alexandrian Canon (Philadelphia 1976; 19802; Louisville 19893)
- I manoscritti del Mar Morto (1978 Soggin), book
- Storia di Israele, dalle origini a Bar Kochba (Brescia 1984; 2002)
- A History of Ancient Israel, from the Beginnings to the Bar Kochba Revolt, AD 135 (London 1984)
- Israele in epoca biblica: istituzioni, feste, cerimonie, rituali (2000 Soggin), book