John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University. He previously taught at the University of Chicago and at Notre Dame. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard (1972). His more recent books include a commentary on The Book of Daniel (Hermeneia series; Fortress Press, 1993), The Scepter and the Star. The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Doubleday, 1995), Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age ( Westminster, 1997), Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Routledge, 1997), Seers, Sibyls and Sages (Brill, 1997), The Apocalyptic Imagination (revised ed., Eerdmans, 1998), Between Athens and Jerusalem. Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (revised ed., Eerdmans, 2000), Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Fortress, 2004), Does the Bible Justify Violence? (Fortress, 2004), Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture (Brill, 2005), Encounters with Biblical Theology (Fortress, 2005), and The Bible after Babel. Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age (Eerdmans, 2005). He has served as editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, as president of the Catholic Biblical Association (1997) and as president of the Society of Biblical Literature (2002). He is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (Continuum, 1998). He is currently editor of the Supplement Series to the Journal for the Study of Judaism (Brill) and of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries.