John J. Collins is Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. His books include Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography and The Apocalyptic Imagination. He is general editor of the Yale Anchor Bible Series.
38 Ebooks by John J. Collins
John J. Collins: The Invention of Judaism
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in
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Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah …
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€32.99
John J. Collins: Joel, Obadiah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
These books, from what are often called the twelve prophets, continue to recount the story of the return from Babylonian exile. They speak with immediacy and power to the generation that was respon …
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€6.49
John J. Collins: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Unraveling the controversies surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination—and more controversy— …
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€18.99
John J. Collins: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
John J. Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by …
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€53.34
John J. Collins: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
John J. Collins’s Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by …
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€56.09
John J. Collins: Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
John J. Collins’s A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is …
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€40.01
John J. Collins: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
John J. Collins’s Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed …
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€23.69
John J. Collins: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
John J. Collins’s Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed …
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€23.60
John J. Collins: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
John J. Collins’s Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed …
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€23.69
John J. Collins: Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
John J. Collins’s Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed …
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€23.56
Stephen P. Ahearne-Kroll & Harold W. Attridge: Scripture and Social Justice
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice either as inspiration or impediment. …
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€37.40
Armin Lange & Kristin De Troyer: The Hebrew Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Until recently, most non-biblical manuscripts attested in the Qumran library were regarded as copies of texts that were composed after the books of the Hebrew Bible were written. Students of the …
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€140.00
John J. Collins & Timothy H. Lim: Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls
In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the …
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€33.80
John J. Collins & Timothy H. Lim: Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls
In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the …
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€33.85
John J. Collins: Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature
Apocalypticism arose in ancient Judaism in the last centuries BCE and played a crucial role in the rise of Christianity. It is not only of historical interest: there has been a growing awareness, …
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€129.47
John J. Collins: Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Since the photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls were released in 1992, there has been an explosion of interest in them. This volume explores the issue of apocalypticism in the Scrolls; how the notions …
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€27.36
John J. Collins: Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Since the photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls were released in 1992, there has been an explosion of interest in them. This volume explores the issue of apocalypticism in the Scrolls; how the notions …
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€47.26
John J. Collins: Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Since the photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls were released in 1992, there has been an explosion of interest in them. This volume explores the issue of apocalypticism in the Scrolls; how the notions …
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€47.26
Adela Yarbro Collins & John J. Collins: Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial subject.This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the Greek …
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€124.66
John J. Collins & Daniel C. Harlow: Early Judaism
Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays …
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€64.98
John J. Collins: Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy
A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including …
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€47.58
John J. Collins: Apocalyptic Imagination
One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, …
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€53.59
John J. Collins & Pieter G. R. Villiers: Apocalypticism and Mysticism in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial subject.
This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the Greek …
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€114.95
Michal Bar-Asher Siegal & Tzvi Novick: The Faces of Torah
This volume is a festschrift in honor of Steven Fraade, the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at Yale University. The contributions to the volume, written by colleagues and former …
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€160.00
Thom Stark: The Human Faces of God
Does accepting the doctrine of biblical inspiration necessitate belief in biblical inerrancy? The Bible has always functioned authoritatively in the life of the church, but what exactly should that …
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€34.99
John J. Collins & Michael Fishbane: Death, Ecstasy, and Other Worldly Journeys
Belief in a spirit world, and a blissful or agonizing afterlife, is one of the most pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristics of religion. This volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of this …
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€41.99
John J. Collins & Gregory E. Sterling: Hellenism in the Land of Israel
Israeli Jews’ response to and appropriation of Greek culture is the subject of the essays in this rich volume. Contributors provide evidence of Greek cultural influence in Judea and Galilee, from bef …
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€21.99
John J. Collins: Bible after Babel
Biblical scholars today often sound as if they are caught in the aftermath of Babel — a clamor of voices unable to reach common agreement. Yet is this confusion necessarily a bad thing? Many …
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€33.59
Ryan E. Stokes: Satan
Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the …
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€41.12
John J. Collins: Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age
Jewish wisdom flourished under Hellenism in the books of Ben Sira and the wisdom of Solomon, as well as in a recently discovered sapiential text from Qumran. In this book, now available as a caseboun …
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€49.99
John J. Collins & Craig A. Evans: Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures
Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures examines the writings included in and excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture and explores the social settings in which some of this literat …
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€27.99
John J. Collins & Daniel C. Harlow: Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism
The Dictionary of Early Judaism is the first reference work devoted exclusively to Second Temple Judaism (fourth century b.c.e. through second century c.e.). The first section of this substantive and …
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€96.24
Anders Runesson & Cecilia Wassen: Negotiating Identities
Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of …
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€49.78
John J. Collins: Scepter and the Star
John J. Collins here offers an up-to-date review of Jewish messianic expectations around the time of Jesus, in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.He breaks these expectations down into categories: …
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€41.17
Adela Yarbro Collins & John J. Collins: King and Messiah as Son of God
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New …
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€42.30
John J. Collins: A imaginação apocalíptica
Parte da ideia de que a literatura apocalíptica evoca um mundo imaginativo colocado em contraponto deliberado com o mundo empírico do presente, apontando que o apocalipticismo se desenvolve …
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€10.99
John J. Collins: Daniel
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In his introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature, Collins examines the main characteristics and discusses the setting …
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