J Collins: 156 books
Reforming Saints
Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany in the decades leading up to the Reformation. Contrary to the traditional wisdom, Collins's research uncovers a resurgence in the composition of saints' lives in the half century...
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Prophecy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.
The...
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
The Torah/Pentateuch
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.
The...
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
The Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.
The...
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
The Deuteronomistic History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.
The...
The Apocalyptic Imagination
An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre.
After an initial overview of things apocalyptic,...
John Wesley
A Theological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
John Wesley: A Theological Journey has been nominated for a Wesleyan Theological Society Book Award. Abingdon Press would like to congratulate Kenneth Collins on this honor.
John Wesley remains a seminal figure, not only for "the people called Methodist, " but also within the larger...
Power, Politics and the Fragmentation of Evangelicalism
From the Scopes Trial to the Obama Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2012
Kenneth J. Collins tells the narrative history of the political and cultural fortunes of American evangelicalism from the late nineteenth century through the contemporary era. He traces the establishment of the evangelical enterprise in American culture and its influences on the political and social...
Anna's Romance
Spicy Western Tales, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
WARNING: This is not your mother's Harlequin.
The Old West was never this wild. Author C.J. Collins and Fast Gun Press© have teamed up to produce a series of Old West tales brimming with explosive action, unbridled lust, and relentless intensity. Each volume in the Spicy Western Tales series...
Outlaw Bride
Spicy Western Tales, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
WARNING: This is not your mother's Harlequin.
The Old West was never this wild. Author C.J. Collins and Fast Gun Press© have teamed up to produce a series of Old West tales brimming with explosive action, unbridled lust, and relentless intensity. Each volume in the Spicy Western Tales series...
Hot Lights, Cold Steel
Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed...
The "Dead Sea Scrolls"
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of...
Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy
On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in this volume. Its thematic essays...
by John J. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
A marvel of conciseness, John J. Collins’s Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is quickly becoming one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and universy classrooms. Here the erudition of Collins’ renowned Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is combined with even more student-friendly...