Yaakov Ariel 
 Professor, Religious Studies 
 Religious Studies, CB#3225 
 (919) 962-3930 
 yariel@email.unc.edu 
 http://www.unc.edu/depts/rel_stud/faculty/YAriel-CV.htm
Appointed Year: | 1994
Tenured: | Yes
Education: | Ph.D. (1986), The Divinity School, University of Chicago

World Area of Focus:

• Middle East 10%-24%
• Western Europe/European Union (EU) 10%-24%

Languages: | • Hebrew (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization: | Jewish-Christian Relationship; Protestantism and the Jews; Evangelicalism and Judaism in America; New Jewish religious movements; Christianity and Israel

Relevant Experience:

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer, 1986-1994. 
Hebrew Union College, senior lecturer, 1992-1994.

Distinctions:

Voted Outstanding Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1991-92.
The Albert C. Outler Prize for best book, 2003.

Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years: | 6
Relevant Courses Taught: | • RELI 541 Global Evangelicalism

Recent Publications:

• 2016 "Unofficial Conversions: Non-Jewish Participants in Contemporary American Synagogues," for a collection on conversion to Judaism, edited by netanel Fisher and Tudor Parfitt.
• 2016 "American Christianity and Israel,"  for a collection on contemporary Israel, edited by Ilan Troen.
• 2016 In addition I have sent for publication a number of articles and book chapters.  These include one refereed article, on "Setting Theological, Literary and Tactical Precedents: the Institutum Judaicum as a Forerunner of Evangelical Missions to the Jews," was accepted by the Journal for Early Modern History.
• 2016 The article "Teaching Christianity in a Multicultural Age" appeared in Christianity for the Curious, a collection edited by Kishor Vaidya.
• 2016 "A Different Kind of Cultural Icon: Allen Ginsberg as a Counter-leader,"  for Cultural Icons, edited by Peter Kaufman.
• 2016 A number of articles have been published during this period, including: "Yeshiva University," "Teshuva," "Temple,"  and "Ultra-Orthodoxy," in the Encyclopedia for Jewish History and Culture, edited by Dan Diner.
• 2016 "A Source of Legitimacy: Evangelical Christians and Jews," for The Jew as Legitimation, edited by David Wertheim.
• 2016 Under Consideration: "Biblical Narratives, Messianic Hopes and religious radicalism: Jewish Fundamentalism in our time." Sent to Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (J-RaT)
• 2016 “Something Old, Something New, Something Blue: Negotiating for a New Relationship between Christianity and Judaism in America,”   for American Jewry Transcending the European  Experience, edited by Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm.
• 2016 "Protestants and Pilgrimages: the Protestant Infrastructure in Jerusalem,"  for a collection on pilgrimages edited by Maria Leppakari.
• 2016 “Turning to Christianity: Hiding Jews and Conversions during the Holocaust,” for Jews in Hiding, edited by Eliot Nidam Orvieto.
• 2016 "Messianic Judaism," for The Jewish Annotated New Testament, edited by Amy Jill Levine and Marc Brettler.
• 2016 Book chapters accepted for publication include:
• 2016 “Would Two Walk Together Unless They Disagreed? for Conservative Judaism and Jewish Renewal, edited by Avinoam Rosenak.
• 2013 An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews. (New York: New York University Press, 2013),  x - 307; "Israel in Contemporary Evangelical Christian Millennial Thought," Numen 59 (2012): 456- 485
• 2012 Ariel, Yaakov. “Israel in Contemporary Evangelical Christian Millennial Thought.” Numen, vol. 59, no. 5-6, Jan. 2012, pp. 456–485.
• 2012 "A Different Kind of Dialogue? Messianic Judaism and Jewish Christian Relations,” CrossCurrents 243 (September 2012): 318-327
• 2011 “L’espoire Massianique: L’influence de la foi Millenariste sur la Politique Americaine au Moyen Orient,” Revue Lisa IX, no. 1 (2011): 302-325
• 2010 "Paradigm Shift: New Religious Movements and Quests for Meaning and Community in Contemporary Israel," Nova Religio 13:4 (May 2010): 4-21
• 2010 "Radical Movements in Contemporary Judaism in Israel: From Progressive to Catastrophic Millennialism," in Oxford Handbook on Millennialism, edited by Catherine Wessinger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
• 2001 "Christian Fundamentalists and the Temple Mount."  In Sovereignty of God and Man: Sanctity and Political Centrality on the Temple Mount, edited by Yitzhak Reiter.  Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (2001): 143-154. [In Hebrew]
• 1998 "Evangelists in a Strange Land: American Missionaries in Israel, 1948-1967."  Studies in Contemporary Jewry 14 (1998):  195-213.
• 1996 "American Dispensationalists and Jerusalem, 1870-1918." In Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, edited by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh and Moshe Davis.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996, 125-138.
• 1996 "Messianism, Holiness, Charisma and Community:  the Protestant American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem, 1881-1933."  Church History 65, no. 4 (December, 1996):  641-657 [with Ruth Kark].
• 1991 On Behalf of Israel: American Fundamentalist Attitudes Towards Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865-1945.  New York, Carlson Publishing Inc., 1991.