Jordan J. Ryan is Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, Illinois, and heads the Roman-period research unit for the Tel Shimron Excavations in Israel, where he works on the excavation of an early Jewish village. He is the author of The Role of the Synagogue in the Aims of Jesus (Fortress, 2017) and From the Passion to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (T&T Clark, 2021).