John J. Collins’s Followers (47)

John J. Collins

Genre

Religion

edit data

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale Divinity School. A native of Ireland, he has a doctorate from Harvard University, and earlier taught at the University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the subjects of apocalypticism, wisdom, Hellenistic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls and served as president of both the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature.

Combine Editions
John J. Collins’s books

Average rating: 4.03 · 2,383 ratings · 310 reviews · 106 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible 3.83 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Introduction to the Hebrew Bible 4.15 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (The Biblical Resource Series (BRS)) 4.10 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1984 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Are Biblical Values?: What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues 4.05 avg rating — 148 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) 3.75 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satan: How God's Executioner Became the Enemy by John J. Collins (Foreword), Ryan E. Stokes 3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scepter and the Star 4.23 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel by John J. Collins, Adela Yarbro Collins 4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1981 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age 3.57 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by John J. Collins…

Quotes by John J. Collins (?)

“The responsible use of the Bible must begin by acknowledging that these books were not written with our modern situations in mind, and are informed by the assumptions of an ancient culture remote from our own.”
― John J. Collins, A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

2 likes

“Anachronism becomes a problem only in questions of historical meaning, and even then anachronistic analogies can still have heuristic value.”
― John J. Collins

0 likes

“All scholars agree that the account is composite. (Witness the number of times Moses ascends the mountain.) The older documentary hypothesis,”
― John J. Collins, The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul (Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies Book 7)

0 likes

See all John J. Collins's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Goodreads Librari...: Need help with these "Jr" author oddities	43	253	May 30, 2015 05:43AM

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite John to Goodreads.

John J. Collins’s Followers (47)

John J. Collins

Combine EditionsJohn J. Collins’s books

Topics Mentioning This Author

Combine Editions
John J. Collins’s books