Education
A native of Ireland, Collins was educated at University College Dublin (Bachelor, Master of Arts) and Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy).
A native of Ireland, Collins was educated at University College Dublin (Bachelor, Master of Arts) and Harvard University (Doctor of Philosophy).
He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the apocryphal works of the Second Temple period including the sectarian works found in Dead Sea Scrolls and their relation to Christian origins. Collins has published and edited over 300 scholarly works, and a number of popular level articles and books The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature (New York: Doubleday, 1995).
And The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2005).
He has held academic positions at a number of institutions including the University of Notre Dame (1985-1991), Harvard University and the University of Chicago (1991-2000). He served as president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research (1995-1996), as president of the Society of Biblical Literature (2002), and as regional president for the New England and Eastern Canada region of the Society of Biblical Literature (2008).
He has recently become the General Editor for the acclaimed Anchor Yale Bible. Collins is married to Professor
Adela Yarbro Collins, Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School since 2000, with whom he has co-authored King and Messiah as Son of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
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