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Books & Articles

Two Cambridge University Press books, then peer-reviewed articles and reviews.

Books

Paul and the Resurrection of Israel
Cambridge University Press, 2024

Paul and the Resurrection of Israel

Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites

“potentially as ‘epoch-defining’ as Paul and Palestinian Judaism by E. P. Sanders in 1977.”

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The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism
Cambridge University Press, 2021

The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism

A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity

“should accomplish nothing less than a paradigm shift.”

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Articles & publications

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

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

  3. Staples, Jason A. “‘Rise, Kill, and Eat’: Gentiles as Animals in Early Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and Acts 10.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42.1 (2019): 1–15.

  4. Staples, Jason A. “‘Lord Lord’: Jesus as YHWH in Matthew and Luke.” New Testament Studies.

  5. Staples, Jason A. “Altered Because of Transgressions? The ‘Law of Deeds’ in Gal 3:19a.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft.

  6. Staples, Jason A. “What Do the Gentiles Have to Do With ‘All Israel’? A Fresh Look at Romans 11:25–27.” Journal of Biblical Literature 130.2 (2011).

  7. Staples, Jason A. Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [film]. Journal of Religion and Film.

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