Adela Yarbro Collins
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Adela Yarbro Collins (1945) is the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Mark and the Book of Revelation, and she has also written on early Christian apocalypticism and eschatology. Collins is currently the President of the Society of New Testament Studies (2010–2011) and has also served as the President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature (2004–2005).[1]
Collins was educated at Harvard University (Ph.D., M.A.) and Pomona College (B.A.). In addition to her current position at Yale, she has also held appointments at the University of Notre Dame (1985–91) and the University of Chicago (1991–2000).[2]
Collins is married to Prof. John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School since 2000, with whom she has co-authored King and Messiah as Son of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).
Selected Bibliography
- King and Messiah as Son of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008); co-authored with John J. Collins.
- Mark: A Commentary (Hermeneia; Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2007).
- Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism (Leiden: Brill, 1996).
- The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation (Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976).
