Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy

This volume, a tribute to John J. Collins by his friends, colleagues, and students, includes essays on the wide range of interests that have occupied John Collins’s distinguished career. Topics range from the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism and beyond into early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. The contributions deal with issues of text and interpretation, history and historiography, philology and archaeology, and more. The breadth of the volume is matched only by the breadth of John Collins’s own work.

Joel Baden, Ph.D. (2007), Harvard University, is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Univerity. He is the author of The Composition of the Pentateuch (Yale, 2012) and The Historical David (HarperOne, 2014), among many other books and articles.

Hindy Najman, Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, is Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford University. Among her many publications are Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003) and Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future (Cambridge, 2014).

Eibert Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994), University of Groningen, is Research Professor in the Research Unit of Biblical Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (Brill, 1997-1998), and the author of To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones (Brill, 2001).