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This is Matt Lynch coming to you from Regent College in Vancouver.

I just wanted to say at the outset here, a word of special thanks to Jason Stark and Taylor

Terzik, who are producing the OnScript episodes now.

There are new producers, and I really appreciate you guys and the work

you're doing for this podcast. So if you, as some of you recall, Ed Hatkey, who I've been

producing the show for five years, has retired from Onscript and he's still staying on in a sort

of consultation capacity. But Jason and Taylor are doing a fantastic job, so we have them to thank for these shows getting produced.

So thanks so much.

And thanks to all of you for listening or supporting OnScript, and we hope you enjoy this episode.

Hello on script listeners. This is Aaron Hym coming to you from Wycliffe Hall, the University of Oxford.

And I'm joined today by my friend Reverend Dr. Andy Byers, who teaches New

Testament at Ridley Hall in Cambridge, what we refer to here as the other place.

And he has my job in the other place as tutor in New Testament.

Andy is here today to talk about his newest book on Johanine literature called John and the Others,

Jewish relations, Christian origins, and the sectarian hermeneutic, which was published by Baylor

University Press in 2021. Andy, welcome to Omscrut. Great. Thanks, Sarah. It's good to be with you.

And this is your second substantial project on John, right? Second. That's right. Yes. So how did

you get interested in John's gospel and become one of these

Johanine scholars that seem to be off in their own sectarian little click everywhere? How did you

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