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Yale Divinity School
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John J. Collins
Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation
john.j.collins@yale.edu
(203) 432-2002
B.A., University College, Dublin
M.A., University College, Dublin
Ph.D., Harvard University
A native of Ireland, Professor Collins was a professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago from 1991 until his arrival at Yale Divinity School in 2000. He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the subjects of apocalypticism, wisdom, Hellenistic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His books include the commentary on Daniel in the Hermeneia series; The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age; The Apocalyptic Imagination; Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora; and most recently, Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM; Does the Bible Justify Violence?; Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture; Encounters with Biblical Theology; and The Bible after Bable: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age. He is co-editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism and has participated in the editing of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is editor of a monograph series for Brill titled Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements and of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries, and has served as editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature and as president of both the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature.
BOOKS
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The Bible after Babel. Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, 2005
Encounters with Biblical Theology, 2005
Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture, 2005
Does the Bible Justify Violence?, 2004
The Hebrew Bible. An Introduction., 2004
Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age, 1997
Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism, 1997
Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1997
Families in Ancient Israel
(co-authored with L. G. Perdue, J. Blenkinsopp, and C. Meyers, 1997)
Qumran Cave 4. XVII. Parabiblical Texts, Part 3
(Co-authored with G. Brooke and others, 1996)
Other Ancient Literature, 1995
The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, 1995
Daniel, 1993
Daniel, with an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature, 1984
The Apocalyptic Imagination, 1984
Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora, 1983
The Apocalyptic Vision of the Book of Daniel, 1977
The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism, 1974