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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the OnScript podcast. My name is Matt Lynch. I'm a co-host along with Matt Bates, Drew Johnson, Aaron Heim, Chris Tilling,

and Amy Brown Hughes, who are a collective of scholars interested in the Bible in related fields,

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Today we have Dr. Clinton Bailey, who's done field work in the Sinai and the Negev for the last 50 years.

It's 5-0 years.

His bachelor's is from Hebrew University and his graduate work was done at Columbia University here in New York City. He was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and he made

Alia to Israel in 1958. And in 1994, he was awarded the Emil Grunsweig, Human Rights Award for

for his efforts to obtain civil

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