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Hey, biblical world listeners. This is Matt Lynch coming to you from Regent College in Vancouver.

Thanks so much for tuning in. In this episode, we've got a

cross-listed episode with Onscript and Biblical World podcasts. And we are, I'm speaking with

Kyle Kimer about his work on the Assyrian invasion of Judah and Hezekiah's preparations for

it. Really fascinating subject to me.

And so I was really privileged to sit down with a biblical world co-host, Kyle Kheimer,

to talk about his dissertation research on this subject. So I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks so much for listening. And thanks so much to our producers on the podcast, to Jason Stark, who produced this

episode, and also to Taylor Terzik, who produces for us as well. So thanks so much for listening.

And if you'd like to give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen,

we would be very grateful.

Hey, biblical world listeners.

This is Matt Lynch here with Biblical World co-host Kyle Kimer.

Kyle, how are you doing?

I am pretty good today.

How are you doing?

I'm doing A-OK.

Kyle is, for those of you who don't know him properly, he's seeing a research fellow

in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, where he was a senior

lecture in archaeology, history, and language of ancient Israel. For 20, over 20 years, he

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