Adela Yarbro Collins
Adela Yarbro Collins | |
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Born | 1945 |
Nationality | American |
Title | Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation |
Board member of | President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature |
Academic background | |
Education | Pomona College, Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
Thesis | The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation: a thesis (1975) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Biblical studies |
Sub-discipline | New Testament studies |
Institutions | University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, Yale Divinity School |
Main interests | Gospel of Mark, Book of Revelation |
Adela Yarbro Collins (born 1945) is an American author and academic, who has served as the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at
Society of New Testament Studies (2010โ2011) and as the President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature (2004โ2005).[1]
Biography
Born in 1945 as Adela Yarbro, she received a
Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. In addition to her current position at Yale, Collins also held appointments at the University of Notre Dame from 1985 to 1991 and at the University of Chicago from 1991 to 2000.[2]
In 2010, a ISBN 3-16150-579-4).
Personal life
Adela Yarbro met and married John J. Collins, who has served as the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation also at Yale Divinity School since 2000. The two co-authored King and Messiah as Son of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
Adela Yarbro Collins is an international author on Biblical Theology.
Select works
Thesis
- Collins, Adela Yarbro (1975). The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation (Ph.D.). Harvard University. OCLC 2433881.
Books
- ——— (1996). Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism. Vol. 50. Leiden: Brill. OCLC 34973630.
- ——— (2007). Mark: A Commentary. Hermeneia - a critical and historical commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress. OCLC 85851521.
- ———; OCLC 213452267.
Edited by
- OCLC 1000582553.
Festschrift
- OCLC 700340556.
References
- ^ Faculty Page at Yale Divinity School Archived May 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ CV of Adela Yarbro Collins hosted by Yale Archived August 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- "Faculty Page at Yale Divinity School". Retrieved April 24, 2019.
- "CV of Adela Yarbro Collins hosted by Yale" (PDF). Retrieved April 24, 2019.