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Yes, please! Staples' book on Paul and the Resurrection of Israel is near the top of my Must Read list. Just look at what some of our scholars are saying about it:
"Enormously important and theologically productive. In Paul and the Resurrection of Israel, Jason Staples shows—again and again—how seemingly isolated puzzles in Paul's letters can be explained coherently within a Second Temple framework of restoration. As the Holy Spirit transforms individuals amid the nations, the twelve tribes of Israel are being raised from the dead. An astonishing contribution." — Matthew W. Bates, author of Salvation by Allegiance Alone; professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary "Staples urges his novel interpretation of Paul with energy, patience, and conviction - leavened periodically with both wit and humor. He is in conversation with a truly staggering amount of relevant secondary scholarship ... Dexterously deploying other ancient sources - Hebrew Bible/LXX, Jubilees, and Enoch, Philo and Josephus, Dead Sea Scrolls, patristica, and various rabbinic works ranging up to the Bavli - he is able to contextualize Paul in ways that make sudden sense of notoriously difficult verses and passages. The argument is utterly original, his topic especially important in this Paul-dominated moment of New Testament scholarship." - Paula Fredriksen, William Goodwin Aurelio Chair Emerita of the Appreciation of Scripture, Boston University "One cannot know in advance what impact a book might have, but in terms of the restorationist paradigm presented by Staples for interpreting Paul, this book is potentially as 'epoch-defining' as Paul and Palestinian Judaism by E. P. Sanders in 1977." — David Nevin, Journal of Religious History "The book is a success. I cannot imagine ever again writing about Romans 9-11, or Romans 2, or any other passage inwhich Paul speaks about Jewish identity or gentile inclusion without consulting this volume. It is thorough, deep, and rich. It is also ingenious. The way Staples corrals an endless array of biblical verses, extra-biblical verses, and seemingly incongruous strands in Paul's own writing, weaving them together into a novel and coherent reading of Romans 9-11, is quite frankly breathtaking, and I marvel at the tour de force. — Joshua Garroway (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute), Religious Studies Review "Here we are treated to the cutting edge of Pauline scholarship by a master of his trade. I have learnt a tremendous amount from Staples, and this book lands his wider project impressively. At various points I found myself mentally readjusting my views in light of his arguments, seeing connections that had previously eluded me. ... I need to register first that I cannot read Paul again the same way post-Staples." — Chris Tilling (St. Mellitus College), Religious Studies Review
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