John J. Collins (1946-), scholar

John J. Collins

John J. Collins (b.1946) is an Irish- American scholar, at Yale University (New Haven, CT), USA. Born in Ireland in 1946, he graduated from the University College Dublin (BA, MA) and Harvard University (PhD). He taught at the University of Notre Dame (1985-91), and the University of Chicago (1991-2000), before moving to Yale University in 2000. Founding member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works

Books

• The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism (1974 Collins), book

• The Apocalyptic Vision of the Book of Daniel (1977 Collins), book

• Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre (1979 Collins), book

• Proverbs, Ecclesiastes (1980 Collins), book

• Daniel, First Maccabees, Second Maccabees, with an Excursus on the Apocalyptic Genre (1981 Collins), book

• Between Athens and Jerusalem (1982 Collins), book
  • Between Athens and Jerusalem, 2nd ed. (2000 @1982 Collins), book

• The Apocalyptic Imagination (1984 Collins), book
  • The Apocalyptic Imagination, 2nd ed. (1998 @1984 Collins), book
  • The Apocalyptic Imagination, 3rd ed. (2016 @1984 Collins), book

• Daniel, with an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature (1984 Collins), book

• Daniel: A Commentary (1993 Collins), book

• The Scepter and the Star (1995 Collins), book

• Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1997 Collins), book
  • L' apocalittica nei rotoli del Mar Morto (1999 Collins / Ferrario, Scarabelli), book (Italian ed.)

• Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age (1997 Collins), book

• Seer, Sybils, and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (2001 Collins), book

• Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (2004 Collins), book
  • A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (2007 Collins), book (abridged ed.)

• Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture (2005 Collins), book

• King and Messiah as Son of God (2008 Yarbro Collins, Collins), book

• Beyond the Qumran Community (2010 Collins), book

• The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (2013 Collins), book

• Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (2015 Collins), book

• The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish identity from Deuteronomy to Paul (2017 Collins), book

Edited volumes

• Ideal Figures in Ancient Judaism: Profiles and Paradigms (1980 Collins, Nickelsburg), edited volume

• Mysteries and Revelations: Apocalyptic Studies since the Uppsala Colloquium (1991 Collins/Charlesworth), edited volume

• Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys (1995 Collins/Fishbane), edited volume

• The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (1998 Collins), edited volume

• Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000 Collins/Kugler), edited volume

• Hellenism in the Land of Israel (2001 Collins/Sterling), edited volume

• The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception (2001 Collins/Flint), edited volume

• Sapiential Perspectives: Wisdom Literature in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2004 Collins/Sterling/Clements), edited volume

• Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2006 Collins/Evans), edited volume

• The Early Enoch Literature (2007 Boccaccini/Collins), edited volume

• The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume

• The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010 Lim, Collins), edited volume

• Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview (2012 Collins, Harlow), edited volume

Articles in edited volumes

• Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (1984 Stone), edited volume
• Outside the Old Testament (1985 Jonge), edited volume
• Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters (1986 Kraft/Nickelsburg), edited volume
• Judaisms and their Messiahs (1987 Neusner), edited volume
• The Community of the Renewed Covenant (1994 Ulrich/VanderKam), edited volume
• Eschatology, Messianism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1997 Evans/Flint), edited volume
• The Dead Scrolls in Their Historical Context (2000 Lim), edited volume
• Ancient Judaism in Its Hellenistic Context (2005 Bakhos), edited volume
• Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Il messia tra memoria e attesa (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Biblical Interpretation at Qumran (2005 Henze), edited volume
• Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume
• The Messiah: Messianism in Early Judaism and Christianity (2007 Zetterholm), edited volume
• Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament (2009 García Martínez), edited volume
• Enoch and Ezra (2013 Collins), essay

External links

• Wikipedia.en -- Wikipedia.de -- Wikipedia.fr -- Wikipedia.it -- Wikipedia.es

References

• Yale Divinity School