Adela Yarbro Collins | |
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| Born | 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation |
| Board member of | President of the New England Region of the Society of Biblical Literature |
| Spouse | John J. Collins |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Pomona College, Harvard University (Ph.D.) |
| Thesis | The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation: a thesis (1975) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Biblical studies |
| Sub-discipline | New Testament studies |
| Institutions | University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, Yale Divinity School |
| Doctoral students | Candida Moss |
| Main interests | Gospel of Mark, Book of Revelation |
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.