John J. Collins (1946-), scholar

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

Biography

Born in Ireland. PhD at Harvard University, USA. Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Founding member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Sybilline 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 (1983 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
• Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age (1997 Collins), book
• Seer, Sybils, and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (2001 Collins), book
• Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture (2005 Collins), book
• King and Messiah as Son of God (2008 Collins), book

Edited volumes

• (with George W.E. Nickelsburg). Ideal Figures in Ancient Judaism: Profiles and Paradigms (Chico 1980)
• Mysteries and Revelations: Apocalyptic Studies since the Uppsala Colloquium (Sheffield 1991)
• The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism. Vol. 1: The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity (New York, Continuum, 1998)
• Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000 Collins/Kugler), edited volume
• Hellenism in the Land of Israel (2001 Collins/Sterling), edited volume
• Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2006 Collins/Evans), edited volume
• The Early Enoch Literature (2007 Boccaccini/Collins), edited volume