John J. Collins (1946-), scholar

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John J. Collins (b.1946) is an Irish- American scholar, at Yale University (New Haven, CT), USA.

Biography

John J. Collins was born in Ireland in 1946.

He graduated from 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.

He is currently Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School.

He is founding member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

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

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

• Between Athens and Jerusalem (1982 Collins), book

• The Apocalyptic Imagination (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

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

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

• Beyond the Qumran Community (2010 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

Articles in edited volumes

• Testaments / John J. Collins / Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period (1984 Stone), edited volume
• The Testament (Assumption) of Moses / John J. Collins / Outside the Old Testament (1985 Jonge), edited volume
• The Testamentary Literature in Recent Scholarship / John J. Collins / Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters (1986 Kraft/Nickelsburg), edited volume
• Messianism in the Maccabean Period / John J. Collins / Judaisms and their Messiahs (1987 Neusner), edited volume
• Teacher and Messiah? The one who will teach righteousness at the end of days / John J. Collins / The Community of the Renewed Covenant (1994 Ulrich/VanderKam), edited volume
• The expectation of the end in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins / Eschatology, Messianism and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1997 Evans/Flint), edited volume
• The nature of messianism in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins / The Dead Scrolls in Their Historical Context (2000 Lim), edited volume
• Anti-Semitism in antiquity? : the case of Alexandria / John J. Collins / Ancient Judaism in Its Hellenistic Context (2005 Bakhos), edited volume
• Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Il messia "figlio di Davide" nel giudaismo del Secondo tempio alla luce dei manoscritti di Qumran / John J. Collins / Il messia tra memoria e attesa (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Interpretation of the Creation of Humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / John J. Collins / Biblical Interpretation at Qumran (2005 Henze), edited volume
• Enoch and the Son of Man: A Response to Sabino Chialà and Helge Kvanvig / John J. Collins / Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Pre-Christian Jewish Messianism: an overview / John J. Collins / The Messiah: Messianism in Early Judaism and Christianity (2007 Zetterholm), edited volume
• The Interpretation of Psalm 2 / John J. Collins / Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament (2009 García Martínez), edited volume

External Links

• Wikipedia
• Yale Divinity School