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 (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 (1983 Collins), book
- The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to the Jewish Matrix of Christianity (New York: Crossroad, 1984)
- 2nd ed. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998)
- 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)
- (with Adela Yarbro Collins). King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008)
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