Adela Yarbro Collins, scholar

Adela Yarbro Collins is an American scholar, at Yale University (New Haven, CT), USA.

Biography

PhD 1975 (Harvard University). Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation (1976 Collins), book

• The Revelation (1979 Collins), book

• Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse (1984 Collins), book

• Early Christian Apocalypticism: Genre and Social Setting (1986 Collins), book

• Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism (1996 Collins), book

• Mark: A Commentary (2007 Collins), book

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

Edited volumes

• Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship (1985 Collins), edited volume