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John J. Collins

John J. Collins is the Holmes Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School.

Essays

The End of the World in Biblical Tradition

In the Hebrew Bible, the destruction of Jerusalem and other cities is sometimes projected onto the cosmos. The destruction is taken more literally in apocalyptic literature of the Roman era. Destruction is not the end, but a prelude to a new creation (with one notable exception).