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Noted biblical scholar Adela Yarbro Collins has begun her Yale career as the new Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation.
Collins joined the faculty at the Divinity School this fall along with her husband, John Collins, who is an expert on the Old Testament. (See related story, this page.) The University announced the pair's appointment last spring.
As a teacher for over two decades, Collins has delved with students into such course topics as early Christian apocalypticism, ethical issues in the New Testament, Jesus' parables, the Book of Revelation, biblical images and sexual politics, and images of Jesus, among many others.
Her books include "The Apocalypse," "Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse," "The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context," "Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship" and "The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation." Several of her lectures have also been published in book form: "The Gospel and Women: The 1987 Fred O. Francis Memorial Lectures in Religion" (delivered at Chapman College) and "Is Mark's Gospel a Life of Jesus? The Question of Genre" (her 1990 Père Marquette Lecture in Theology at Marquette University). She is currently working on a commentary about the Gospel of Mark for the Hermeneia series.
A professor of New Testament at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago since 1991, Collins chaired the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature there. She previously was a professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and also taught at McCormick Theological Seminary and Weston School of Theology.
Collins earned her undergraduate degree at Pomona College and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. She has lectured at academic and church-related conferences around the country and abroad, and has held visiting teaching appointments at Boston College, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, the Iliff School of Theology and Regis College.
Collins has been a lead researcher for the New Testament Language Project and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal for the Study of New Testament, the Journal of Religion, and Biblical Interpretation. She was awarded a Fellowship for University Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a grant from the Endowment for Biblical Research in Boston, as well as other research and travel grants. In 1994, the University of Oslo awarded her an honorary doctor of theology degree.
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