Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Onscript podcast. This is Matt Lynch. I'm a co-host with Matt Bates, Drew Johnson,

Aaronheim, Chris Tilling, and Amy Brown Hughes. Thanks so much for listening in. This week we have an

episode that I recorded a couple years back with Christian Hofrider about his book on the Old Testament

and Genocide. And we're going to

rerun it this week because I think it's a really important book and a really insightful one.

So I hope you find it useful. And it's a book I've gone back to several times. And it's

in form my understanding of the progression of Christian thinking about violence in the Old Testament.

Also, I wanted to selfishly just take the opportunity, too, to mention that I have a book coming out

very shortly. In fact, I think it's already printed and available soon. So it's called

portraying violence in the Hebrew Bible, and it's published by

Cambridge University Press. So if that's of interest to you, check it out. It ain't cheap,

but if you have lots of money to drop on a book, it's a good one. And if not, maybe you're connected

to a library that would be interested in purchasing it. So just thought I'd mention that,

and because we're on the theme of violence in the Old Testament here with this episode. So enjoy the episode and I hope

everyone's doing okay in lockdown and that you're all staying healthy and well. Thanks so much for

listening, for your support and for your encouragement along the way. Take care.

Welcome to Onscript. I'm Matt Lynch. Our guest today is Christian. and for your encouragement along the way. Take care.

Welcome to Onscript. I'm Matt Lynch. Our guest today is Christian Hoffrider, who is the director of the Zacharias Institute in Vienna, and is also a research fellow with the Oxford

Center for Christian Apologetics. He's the author of a book that we're going to be discussing today, Making Sense

of Old Testament Genocide, Christian Interpretations of Hiram Passages, published by Oxford

University Press this year 2018. Christian, welcome to Onscript.

Thanks for having me on that. First, I'm wondering if you could tell us a bit about your work in Austria

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