Jason M. Olson currently serves as a Navy foreign area officer. Prior
to this assignment, he served as a Latter-day Saint Navy chaplain for
five and a half years, ministering to Marine infantry and artillery,
to sailors aboard a Navy cruiser, and overseas in Japan. He received
his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2016, through the Department of
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. There he held fellowships with the
Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, the American-Israeli
Cooperative Enterprise, the Israel Institute, and Columbia
University’s Hertog Global Strategy Initiative on religious violence
and apocalyptic groups. He published his first book in 2018,
“America’s Road to Jerusalem: The Impact of the Six-Day War on
Protestant Politics” (Lexington Books). He is a proud BYU alum,
graduating in 2010 in Hebrew Bible/Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
Currently he is collaborating with award-winning novelist and poet,
James Goldberg, on a full memoir of his experiences in Judaism and the
restored Gospel. You can learn more about the Burning Book project
at: https://www.facebook.com/BurningBookProject/.
