Cosmology and Eschatology in Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism » (New Edition)

Adela Yarbro Collins, Ph.D. (1975) in the Study of Religion, Harvard University, is Professor of New Testament in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She has published extensively on the book of Revelation and the Gospel of Mark, including The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context (Fortress, 1992).

This study of ancient Jewish and Christian apocalypticism provides new insights into the origin and function of symbols and ideas relating to the structures of the universe and time and to political and social relations.

Society of Biblical Literature - William E. Arnal

...[An] at-times fascinating collection of studies on several key aspects of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature....[D]isplays extensive erudition on the issues she takes up.