Welcome to Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture,

podcast from Talbot School Theology of Biola University.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.

You know your co-hosthost Sean McDowell, professor of Christian apologetics.

We're here today with one of our own, Talbot Old Testament Professor Marcus Zender, who has written a wonderful new book entitled The Bible and Immigration.

It's a comprehensive sort of all you need on the subject in one place and we really appreciate Marcus coming on with us.

Marcus has had a distinguished academic career throughout Europe.

He's taught at schools in Belgium, Germany, and Norway.

He speaks multiple languages.

He's as close to a renaissance man as anybody I know personally.

And then he's been on the Talbot faculty here for the last several years.

So we've been delighted to have his expertise in Old Testament with us, and particularly on this

subject of immigration.

So Marcus, welcome. Really great to have you with us.

Thank you very much. It's a privilege to be here.

Now, Marcus, you have sort of made your reputation as an Old Testament scholar. You've taught and written lots of

technical stuff on lots of different parts of the Old Testament that have to do

with Hebrew and the language. But what is it about the subject of

immigration that has captured your interest for so long?

It's a combination of scholarly and personal reasons.

Personal first, I watched the onset of mass immigration into my home country Switzerland when it really began and then watched it continue and saw the consequences of it and saw the responses given by church and theology and found

there is something to add. So that's where this scholarly side comes in because as

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