Jan Alberto Soggin (10 March 1926 – 27 October 2010) was a leading Italian biblical scholar.
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 was a member of the editorial board of Henoch, Vetus Testamentum and of Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft.
It is granted 'in recognition of special service to Biblical Studies'.