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A husband-and-wife team of scholars -- one an expert on the Old Testament, the other an expert on the New Testament -- will join the Divinity School faculty next year.
John and Adela Yarbro Collins will serve as professor of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, respectively.
"It is truly a pleasure to welcome John and Adela Yarbro Collins to the Yale Divinity School faculty," says Divinity Dean Richard J. Wood. "John and Adela bring enormous strengths to the Divinity School's biblical studies faculty.
"Together they have contributed profoundly to our understanding of apocalyptic literature. Separately, he, in Old Testament, and she, in New Testament, are leading scholars in their fields," adds Wood. "Moreover, both John and Adela are theologically interested biblical interpreters, a very important factor for the school."
Adela Yarbro Collins' work has contributed to the study of the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. Her first book, "The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation," explored the literary and symbolic dimensions of the Apocalypse. Her other publications include "Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism," "The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context," "Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse," "The Apocalypse" (part of the New Testament Message series) and "The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation." She is currently at work on a commentary about the Gospel according to Mark for the Hermeneia series.
Adela Collins has been professor of New Testament at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago since 1991. Previously, she was professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in New Testament and Christian origins. In 1995 she was awarded a Fellowship for University Teachers by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was editor of the Society of Biblical Literature's Monograph Series from 1985 to1990 and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religion, the Journal for the Study of the New Testament and Biblical Interpretation.
Considered one of the world's leading biblical scholars, John Collins has covered a wide range of topics in his teaching and research. He has published widely on the subjects of apocalypticism, wisdom, Hellenistic Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His commentary on Daniel in the Hermeneia series has become the standard work on that book of the Bible. His other works include "The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls," "Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls," "Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism;" "Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age," "The Apocalyptic Imagination" and "Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora." He is co-editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism and has participated in the editing of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
A native of Ireland, John Collins has been Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago since 1991. He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature and president of the Catholic Biblical Association. He is currently vice-president elect of the Society of Biblical Literature.
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