# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-j-collins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:39:54.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-j-collins"
name: "John J. Collins"
slug: "john-j-collins"
description: "John Joseph Collins is an Irish-born American scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism, Holmes Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. His research centers on Jewish apocalyptic literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He served as general editor of the Anchor Yale Bible Series from 2008 to 2025, then was succeeded by Candida R. Moss. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018."
tagline: "American Biblical scholar"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.4
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  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump