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Adela Yarbro Collins

Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation

adela.collins@yale.edu
(203) 432-1598

B.A., Pomona College
M.A., Harvard University
Ph.D., Harvard University

Professor Yarbro Collins joined the Yale Divinity School in 2000 after teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School for nine years. Prior to that, she was a professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She was a member of the executive committee of the Society of New Testament Studies from 2002 to 2003. She was president of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2004-2005. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology by the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1994 and a Fellowship for University Teachers by the National Endowment for the Humanities for 1995-96. Her most recent book is a commentary on the Gospel of Mark for the Hermeneia commentary series. Among her other publications are 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 (New Testament Message series); and The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation. She served as the editor of the Society of Biblical Literature's Monograph Series from 1985 to 1990. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, and the Catholic Biblical Quarterly.

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BOOKS

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Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Bible and Culture: Essays in Honor of Hans Dieter Betz
(Editor, 1999)

Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism, 1996

The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context, 1992

Is Mark's Gospel a Life of Jesus? The Question of Genre, 1990

The Gospel and Women: The 1987 Fred O. Francis Memorial Lectures in Religion, 1988

Early Christian Apocalypticism: Genre and Social Setting
(Editor, 1986)

Feminist Perspectives on Biblical Scholarship
(Editor, 1985)

Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse, 1984

Pentecost 2
(co-author, 1982)

The Apocalypse, 1979

The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation, 1976