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Hey everyone. Welcome back to the OnScript Podcast.

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

Two quick announcements before we begin here.

First of all, this episode with Gary Schnichter will include a free book giveaway possibility.

If you go over to our Twitter handle at OnScript Podcast, you can retweet and follow for a chance to win there.

So please take advantage of that if you're listening within reasonable distance of when this podcast comes out here at the end of April.

And also, we have a listener Q&A in our other podcast,

the Biblical World podcast.

So if you'd like to submit a question for discussion

about the history, culture, archaeology, context of the older New Testaments,

you can do so by emailing on-s scriptpodcasts at gmail.com, or you could

tweet a question to us for discussion. So those two things, the Bookieboy and the listener

Q&A that we'll be doing over at the Biblical World podcast are things I want you to make,

to make sure are on your radar. So thanks so much for listening and enjoy this episode.

Our guest today is Dr. Gary Schnickner, who is Distinguished University Professor of Old

Testament at Cairn University School of Divinity.

He's the author of Old Testament use of Old Testament, a book-by-book guide, which came out recently from Zondervin,

Old Testament narrative, the Israel Story, which is to be released later in the fall of this year,

and Torah story and apprenticeship on the pentateauk now in

its thoroughly revised second edition and we're going to be discussing that book today gary was also a

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