Jason Wendel

Jason Wendel recently completed his PhD in Theology and Religion (New Testament) at the University of Cambridge. Jason grew up on the Canadian prairies, where he obtained a BA in Biblical Studies and an MA in Biblical Languages and Exegesis from Briercrest College and Seminary.

In Jason’s dissertation, forthcoming as a monograph in Mohr Siebeck’s WUNT2, he challenges a dominant scholarly consensus that the discussion of the Law of Moses in the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles is inconsistent. He argues that Luke, along with virtually all Second Temple Jewish texts, regards the Law as both regulative and prophetic—a dual function that remains valid within the life of the Church. Moreover, throughout his two works, Luke portrays Jesus and his followers as Torah-observant over against those who accuse them of abandoning the Law. Jason has published articles on the Luke-Acts in Harvard Theological Review and the Journal for the Study of New Testament as well as a short commentary on the Third Gospel forthcoming in the New Oxford Bible Commentary.

Jason’s research interests revolve around contextualizing the New Testament texts as products of Second Temple Judaism, on the one hand, and considering their earliest reception and the development of Christian theology in the second century, on the other. He is currently working on a project examining the introduction of natural law theory into Christian thought.