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

• Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse (Philadelphia 1984)
• Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism (1996 Collins), book
• (with John J. Collins). King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic figures in Biblical and Related Literature (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008)

Edited volumes

• Early Christian Apocalypticism: Genre and Social Setting (Decatur: Scholars, 1986)