John K. Riches, scholar

John K. Riches is a British scholar.

Biography

Professor emeritus of Divinity and Biblical Criticism, University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Jesus and the Transformation of Judaism (1980 Riches), book

• The World of Jesus: First-Century Judaism in Crisis (1990 Riches), book
  • El mundo de Jesús: el judaísmo del siglo I, en crisis (1996 Riches), book (Spanish ed.)

• The Bible: A Very Short Introduction (2000 Riches), book

Edited volumes

• The Gospel of Matthew in Its Roman Imperial Context (2005 Riches / Sim), edited volume