John Joseph[1] Collins (born 1946, County Tipperary) is an Irish-born American biblical scholar, the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School.
[2] Collins has published and edited over 300 scholarly works, and a number of popular level articles and books.
[3] Among his best known works are the Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (New York: Crossroad, 1983); Daniel in the Hermeneia commentary series (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993); The Scepter and the Star.
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).
[5][3] Collins is married to Adela Yarbro Collins, who served as the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School from 2000 till 2019, with whom he has co-authored King and Messiah as Son of God (Grand Rapids: Wm.