Yaakov Ariel is a rabbi and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches Protestantism, especially Evangelical Christianity, and its attitudes towards Jewish people and the Holy land, Christian-Jewish relations in the late modern era, and the Jewish reactions to modernity and postmodernity. He has published numerous articles and books on these topics, including Evangelizing the Chosen People and An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews.