This volume, a tribute to John J. Collins by his friends, colleagues, and students, includes essays on the wide range of interests that have occupied John Collins's distinguished career.

Joel Baden, Ph.D. (2007), Harvard University, is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Univerity. He is the author of The Composition of the Pentateuch (Yale, 2012) and The Historical David (HarperOne, 2014), among many other books and articles.
Hindy Najman, Ph.D. (1998), Harvard University, is Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oxford University. Among her many publications are Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003) and Losing the Temple and Recovering the Future (Cambridge, 2014).
Eibert Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994), University of Groningen, is Research Professor in the Research Unit of Biblical Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is the co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (Brill, 1997-1998), and the author of To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones (Brill, 2001).