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Jason A. Staples is a specialist in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, focusing primarily on Early Judaism and Christian Origins.

In addition to NCSU, Jason has taught a broad range of courses in the fields of Religious Studies and Sociology at Duke, Wake Forest, UNC-Chapel Hill, Florida State University, Lexington Theological Seminary, and Emmaus University/Séminaire Théologique Mondelus.

Selected Research Publications

Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Former Jews, Gentiles, Israelites. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity​​​​​​​. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

“Ethnic Transformation and Israel’s Resurrection in the Pauline Epistles and Beyond: In Grateful Dialogue with Reviewers,” Religious Studies Review 50.3, 2024.

“Empire” in The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, 2nd Ed., edited by Nijay K. Gupta and Lynn H. Cohick. IVP Academic, 2023,  242–50.

“Body of Christ” in The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, 2nd Ed., edited by Nijay K. Gupta and Lynn H. Cohick. IVP Academic, 2023, 83–85.

“Babylon,” in The Bible and Science Fiction. Edited by Kelly J. Murphy and Nicole L. Tilford. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2023.

“Vessels of Wrath and God’s Pathos: Potter/Clay Imagery in Rom 9:19–23,” Harvard Theological Review 115.2 (2022): 197–218.

“‘Rise, Kill, and Eat’: Gentiles as Animals in Early Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and Acts 10,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42 no. 1 (2019), 1–15

“‘Lord LORD’: Jesus as YHWH in Matthew and Luke,” New Testament Studies 64 no. 1 (2018): 1–19.

“‘Altered Because of Transgressions’? The ‘Law of Deeds’ in Gal 3:19a,” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 106 no. 1 (2015): 126–35.

“What Do the Gentiles Have to Do with ‘All Israel’? A Fresh Look at Romans 11:25–27,” Journal of Biblical Literature 130 no. 2 (2011): 371–90.

Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (film). Journal of Religion and Film 15.1 (2011).

“Shadowlands, Myth, and the Creation of Meaning in Inception,” Journal of Religion and Film 14.1 (2010).

Courses Taught at NCSU

REL 200 Introduction to the Study of Religion
REL 210 Religious Traditions of the World
REL 220 Religion in the Contemporary World
REL 311 Introduction to the Old Testament
REL 312 Introduction to the New Testament
REL 317 Christianity
REL 350 Judaism
REL 380 Emotion and Religion
REL 383 Religion, Globalism, and Justice
REL 413 The Life and Letters of the Apostle Paul
REL 471/571/STS 471 Darwinism and Christianity
REL 482/582 Religion and Conflict
REL 498 Special Topics in Religious Studies

Courses Taught Elsewhere

Introduction au Nouveau Testament (Emmaus University/Séminaire Théologique Mondelus)
The Gospel of Mark (Duke Divinity School)
Sport and Society (Duke University Department of Sociology)
Historical Sociology of Christianity (UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Sociology)
Introduction to the History of Christian Traditions (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Jesus in Myth, Tradition, and History (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Christian-Jewish Relations Through the Ages (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Advanced New Testament Greek (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Introduction to New Testament Literature (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Jewish-Christian Relations and the New Testament (Wake Forest University)
Visions of the End: Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic (Wake Forest University)
Introduction to the Bible (Wake Forest University)
Introduction to the New Testament (Florida State University)
Biblical Hebrew I and II (Tallahassee Christian College and Training Center)

Publications

• Ethnic Transformation and Israel's Resurrection in the Pauline Epistles and Beyond: In Grateful Dialogue with Reviewers , Religious Studies Review (2024)
• The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations, by John Van Maaren , Journal for the Study of Judaism (2024)
• Babylon , SBL Press eBooks (2023)
• Body of Christ , The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (2023)
• Empire , The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (2023)
• František Ábel, Ed. Israel and the Nations: Paul’s Gospel in the Context of Jewish Expectation , Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations (2023)
• God’s Justice and the End of the Torah , Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)
• Paul and the Israel Problem , Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)
• Paul and the Resurrection of Israel , Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)
• The End of the Matter , Cambridge University Press eBooks (2023)

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