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Hello my friends, welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm your host.

I'm here with my mighty man of valor, co-host. John by the way, welcome John by the way to follow him

another episode. Only you would say that. The audience is laughing with us as they look at me and try

to make those adjectives fit. John, you are a mighty man of valor. That comes from judges 612

because we're going to be spending our time in the book of Judges today talking about what happens

to the kingdom of Israel after the death of Joshua. So we needed a great mind to help us make sense

of all this John. So who is with us today? Yes, we are grateful to have Dr. Dana M. Pike and

this is a face and a voice that I'm familiar with because I love watching those roundtable

discussions. Dana M. Pike is an emeritus professor of ancient scripture and ancient near eastern

studies at Brigham Young University. He received his bachelor's in near Eastern archaeology and

anthropology from Brigham Young University and his PhD in the Hebrew Bible and ancient near

eastern studies from the University of Pennsylvania. And after seven years as the coordinator for the

inter-departmental ancient near eastern studies major and four years as an associate dean of

her religious education, he served three years as the chair of the Department of Ancient scripture

and I know Hank, you've told me he's done a lot of work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Definitely,

I would say the best mind in the church on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wow. I'll deny that. Yeah.

He and his wife Jane have three children and eight grandchildren. Our listeners might have

heard us talk about the Sparry Symposium. They have every year and they usually compile a book.

He wrote a chapter called The Poor and the Needy in the Book of Isaiah. That's in one of the Sparry

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