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 (Harvard University, USA). Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Founding member of the Enoch Seminar.

Works

Books

• The Sybilline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism (Missoula 1974)
• The Apocalyptic Vision of the Book of Daniel (Missoula 1977)
• Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre (Missoula 1979)
• Daniel, First Maccabees, Second Maccabees, with an Excursus on the Apocalyptic Genre (Wilmington 1981)
• Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (New York 1983; Grand Rapids 20002)
• The Apocalyptic Imagination (New York 1984; Grand Rapids 19982)
• Daniel, with an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature (Grand Rapids 1984)
• Daniel: A Commentary (Minneapolis 1993)
• The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature (New York 1995)
• Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (London 1997)
• Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age (Louisville 1997)
• Seer, Sybils, and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism (Boston 2001)
• Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture: Essays on the Jewish Encounter with Hellenism and Roman Rule (Leiden 2005)

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)
• (with Bernard McGinn). The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (New York 1998)
• (with Robert A. Kugler). Religion in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids 2000)
• (with Gregory E. Sterling). Hellenism in the Land of Israel (Notre Dame 2001)
• (with Craig A. Evans). Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids 2006)
• (with Gabriele Boccaccini). The Early Enoch Literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007)