Jason A. Staples (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NC State University. He is the author of Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites (2024) and The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity (2021), both with Cambridge University Press. Given the wages of an adjunct professor, Jason has also worked in sports media for over fifteen years, coached high school football for a few years, and as a freelance editor, voiceover artist, and audiobook narrator. He blogs at jasonstaples.substack.com and will soon be launching a Bible-oriented podcast called the BiblePod.