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Adela Yarbro Collins

American author and an international academic and writer on Biblical Theology

Summary

American author and an international academic and writer on Biblical Theology

Field	Value
honorific_prefix
name	Adela Collins
birth_name	Adela Yarbro
birth_date	1945
death_date
title	Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation
boards	President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature
spouse	John Collins
awards
alma_mater	Pomona College (BA)

thesis_title	The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation: a thesis
thesis_year	1975
influences
discipline	Biblical studies
sub_discipline	New Testament studies
workplaces	University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, Yale Divinity School
doctoral_students	Candida Moss
notable_students
main_interests	Gospel of Mark, Book of Revelation
influenced

Harvard University (PhD) Adela Yarbro Collins (born 1945) is an American author and academic, who served as 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. She has also written on the reception of the Pauline epistles, early Christian apocalypticism, and ancient eschatology.

Biography

Born in 1945 as Adela Yarbro, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College, and her Master and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Collins formerly held appointments at the University of Notre Dame (1985-1991) and at the University of Chicago (1991-2000). In 2010, a Festschrift was published in her honor: Women and Gender in Ancient Religions ().

Career and research

Collins's work has focussed on Apocalypticism, the Book of Revelation, and the Gospel of Mark. Among her many books *Mark: A Commentary *(Fortress 2007); Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of Apocalypse (Westminster, 1984); and The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation (Harvard Dissertations in Religion 9; Missoula, MT: Scholars Press for the Harvard Theological Review; reprinted Wipf and Stock, 2001) stand out as major contributions to the field. Collins is considered one of the pioneers in understanding apocalyptic literature in Judaism and Christianity and her commentary on Mark has been called a "landmark in Markan scholarship."

She is noted for her mentorship of students in particular her support for women biblical scholars. Her colleague Michal Beth Dinkler said in a tribute to Collins "Adela has helped to pave the way for younger female scholars like myself in a field that continues to be dominated by men." Collins served as dissertation adviser to a number of biblical scholars including Paul Holloway, James Kelhoffer, Stephen Ahearne-Kroll, and Candida Moss.

Honors and awards

Collins has also served as the President of the Society of New Testament Studies (2010–2011), as the President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature (2004–2005), and as President of the Society of Biblical Literature (2022-2023). In 2014 she was awarded honorary doctorates in theology by the University of Oslo, Norway. In 2015 she received a second honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. In 2018 she was a joint recipient of the University of Mainz's Gutenberg Research Award. In 2020 she was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Personal life

Adela Yarbro is married to John Collins, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. The two co-authored King and Messiah as Son of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008).

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References

[http://divinity.yale.edu/sites/default/files/faculty_cv/A%20Collins%20CV.complete.pdf CV of Adela Yarbro Collins hosted by Yale] {{webarchive. link. (August 14, 2011)
"Adela Collins: Overcoming obstacles to shed important light on the Bible".
[http://divinity.yale.edu/collins-0 Faculty Page at Yale Divinity School] {{webarchive. link. (May 17, 2011)
https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/4291_ENG_HTML.php {{Bare URL inline. (August 2024)
"Adela Yarbro Collins | American Academy of Arts and Sciences".

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