John J Collins

Biographic Data

ID145388
NAMEJohn J Collins
GIVEN NAMESJohn J
FAMILY NAMECollins
SIGNATURECOLLINS J J
AFFILIATIONSYale University
ORCID0000-0001-5072-972X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS125
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT119
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1938
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War

    Open AccessJohn J Collins, Paul Middleton et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to Religion…2023

    This Companion offers a global, comparative history of the interplay between religion and war from ancient times to the present. Moving beyond sensationalist theories that seek to explain why 'religion causes war,' the volume takes a thoughtful look at the connection between religion and war through a variety of lenses - historical, literary, and sociological-as well as the particular features of religious war. The twenty-three carefully nuanced …

  • The Community Rules from Qumran

    John J CollinsARTICLEDead Sea Discoveries2023

  • The Shipping Interests of the Beckwith Family of Colchester, 1816–1919

    Ian Beckwith, John J Collins et al.ARTICLEThe Mariner s Mirror2023

    This article endeavours to construct the history of the Beckwith family and their various partners in a shipping business which, in various forms, operated out of the port of Colchester from 1816 to 1919. The family’s interests began with Joseph Beckwith, a master mariner on the coastal trade. Through his connections with shipowners, his sons also entered the trade. Benjamin Beckwith was a master mariner and in the 1840s began to take shares in s…

  • Populist attitudes in Australia

    Glenn Kefford, Benjamin Moffitt et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Political…2023Cited by: 3References: 31

    The study of populist attitudes is a burgeoning area of scholarship. While the manner in which populism is measured and the concepts underpinning it are continuously updated, much work remains. In this article we consider the way populist attitudes are associated with key issues in Australian politics and the way these issues shape voting behaviour. We demonstrate that populist attitudes are associated with dissatisfaction with the functioning of…

  • The Torah in its Symbolic and Prescriptive Functions

    John J CollinsARTICLEHebrew Bible and Ancient Israel2022

    The Torah was recognized as the ancestral law of Judah from the Persian period onwards. Usually, observance focused on items of high symbolic value. After the Maccabean revolt some groups insisted on much more detailed observance, and this insistence gave rise to sectarian movements.

  • Emerging Sectarianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls

    John J Collins, Ananda Geyser-FouchéBOOKEmerging Sectarianism in the Dead…2022

  • Serek Ha-Yaḥad Revisited

    John J CollinsARTICLEEarly Christianity2022

    Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert wurde weithin angenommen, dass 1QS die Regel für eine Gemeinschaft war, die der yaḥad genannt wurde und in Qumran lebte. Inzwischen ist klar, dass der yaḥad nicht auf eine Ortslage begrenzt war. Es ist ebenfalls deutlich geworden, dass die »Regel« oder der serek in mehreren unterschiedlichen Formen existierte. Dies lässt Fragen über den Charakter des Corpus der Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer aufkommen, das oft als di…

  • The Teacher of Righteousness Revisited

    John J CollinsCHAPTEREmerging Sectarianism in the Dead…2022

  • What Is Hellenistic Judaism

    John J CollinsARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2022References: 8

    Martin Hengel argued effectively that all Judaism in the Hellenistic period was Hellenistic Judaism, but Judaism in the land of Israel remained very different from its counterpart in the Diaspora. Recent study of globalization and “glocalization” has shown that local cultures are not obliterated by globalization but react to it in various ways. There is also a new and growing appreciation of the differences between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empi…

  • Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran

    Open AccessJohn J Collins, Eibert Tigchelaaar et al.BOOKInterpreting and Living God's Law…2020

    The text Miqṣat Ma ̔aśe Ha-Torah , Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT), is one of the most interesting texts among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls discovered near the settlement of Khirbet Qumran and its vicinity in the middle of the twentieth century and by now published in full. It is a writing in the form of a letter by an unknown author to an equally unknown addressee, written in second person singular and plural. This document is the earliest…

  • Messianism, Jewish

    Open AccessJohn J CollinsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2020

    The word “Messiah” is derived from the Hebrew mashiach , “anointed one.” In the Hebrew Bible it refers most often to the king, but sometimes to the high priest. In the Second Temple period the word took on an eschatological sense. Most often it referred to one who would restore the kingdom of Israel. It could also refer to an eschatological high priest or prophet, or to a heavenly savior figure. The Greek equivalent, christos /Christ, is used as …

  • Prologue

    John J CollinsCHAPTEROccupied by Memory2020

  • Glossary of Arabic Terms

    John J CollinsCHAPTEROccupied by Memory2020

  • Between Romance and Tragedy

    John J CollinsCHAPTEROccupied by Memory2020

  • Personalising screening of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy - qualitative evidence to inform effective implementation

    Open AccessPeter Clarke, Simon Harding et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Implementing variable-interval screening into clinical practice is generally acceptable to PWD and HCP with important caveats, and misconceptions must be addressed. Clear safeguards against increasing non-attendance, loss of diabetes control and alternative referral pathways are required. For risk calculation systems to be safe, reliable monitoring and clear communication is required

  • A Contested Field

    John J CollinsARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2019

    There has been an explosion of interest in Second Temple Judaism over the last fifty years. In the first half of the period under review, the Pseudepigrapha were at the cutting edge. This period culminated in the publication of the new enlarged edition of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth. Beginning in the 1980s, interest shifted to the Dead Sea Scrolls, culminating in the rapid publication of the corpus under the …

  • Not One World but Two. The Future in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

    Open AccessJohn J Collins, John CollinsARTICLEReligions2019References: 8

    The Jewish apocalyptic literature that first appears in the Hellenistic period and continues into the Common Era developed a radically novel view of the future. As formulated in the apocalypse of 4 Ezra about the end of the first century CE, the Most High created not one world but two. This world must be utterly destroyed and replaced by a new creation. This view of the future is inherited in the New Testament, most strikingly in the Book of Reve…

  • Philo of Alexandria

    Open AccessMaren R Niehoff, Maren Niehoff et al.BOOKPhilo of Alexandria2018

    Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. This book presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that his trip to Rome in 38 CE was a turning point in his life. There he was exposed to not only new political circumstances but also “a new cultural and philosophical environment.” Following the pogrom in Alexa…

  • The Birth of Christian History

    Eve-Marie Becker, John J CollinsBOOKBirth of Christian History2017

    When the Gospel writings were first produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient memorial cultures and history-writing traditions. Yet, little has been written about exactly what shaped the development of early Christian literary memory. This book explores the diverse ways in which history was written according to the Hellenistic literary tradition, focusing specifically on the time during which the New Testam…

  • Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East

    John J Collins, J G ManningBOOKRevolt and Resistance in the…2016

  • The house of the mother

    Cynthia R Chapman, John J CollinsBOOKThe house of the mother2016

    Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Chapman draws on twenty years of research to uncover an underappreciated yet socially significant kinship unit in the Bible: "the house of the mother." In households where a man had two or more wives, siblings born to the same mother worked to promote and protect one another's interests. Revealing the hierarchies of the maternal houses and political divisions within the national h…

  • A multi-level anomaly detection algorithm for time-varying graph data with interactive visualization

    Open AccessRobert A Bridges, John J Collins et al.ARTICLESocial Network Analysis and Mining2016

  • Scriptures and sectarianism

    John J CollinsBOOKScriptures and sectarianism2014

    "The Dead Sea Scrolls include many texts that were produced by a sectarian movement (and also many that were not). The movement had its origin in disputes about the interperation of the Scriptures, especially the Torah, not in disputes about the priesthood as had earlier been assumed. The definitive break with the rest of Judea society should be dated to the first century BCE rather than to the second. John J. Collins illustrates how the worldvie…

  • Scriptures and Sectarianism

    John J CollinsBOOKScriptures and Sectarianism2014

    The sectarian movement described in the Dead Sea Scrolls arose from disputes about the interpretation of Scripture. John J. Collins illustrates how the apocalyptic worldview of the sect, involving dualism, hope for afterlife with the angels, etc. was developed to account for the rejection the Teacher and his movement encountered.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature

    John J CollinsBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of…2014