Welcome to Onscript's Biblical World, a podcast exploring the history, archaeology, geography, and cultures of the Bible.

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Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the biblical world podcast.

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

In this episode, you're going to hear the first chunk of an interview I did with Colin Cornell.

And because we focus on Elephantine, a Jewish colony, military colony on the Nile in Egypt,

I thought it would be a good portion of an episode to play on this podcast.

So eventually you hear the rest of it on script, our other podcast. But we're going to be

focusing on Elephantine, so it really fit with the content of this biblical world podcast.

So we're playing that for you here. Hope you enjoy that.

And so the intro will make it sound like we're going to cover more territory, which we do eventually.

And you can hear that longer one on our other podcast on script, but it's not out yet.

So I hope you enjoy this. Thanks so much for listening.

Welcome back, everyone.

Our guest today is Dr. Colin Cornell, who is the Provost-Cannler Post-Dactual Teaching Fellow

at Candler School of Theology and Emory University.

Colin is the author of Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions, Vengeful Gods

and Loyal Kings, and he's the editor of two books,

first of all, divine doppelgangers, Yahweh's ancient lookalikes, and a forthcoming volume

called The incomparable God readings in biblical theology, which is a collection of Brent Strawn's

essays. He's also co-translated from Dutch, the book Biblical ABCs, The Basics of Christian

Resistance, which is a book about K. H. Miskota. And he's got projects in the works right now. So,

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