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Hey, everyone. Welcome to OnScript. This is Matt Lynch coming to you from Regent College in Vancouver.

Welcome also to our biblical world listeners. This is a cross-listed episode because we're

following up on our initial discussion of sacrifice in the Old Testament, myths about sacrifice

and ritual in the Old Testament.

And we're discussing in this episode with Kyle Kimer, who is an archaeologist and a host at the Biblical World podcast on some of the ways that the field of archaeology can shed light

on this subject. So we hope you enjoy this as a follow-up, and thanks so much for listening.

Okay, well, welcome OnScript fans.

This is a crossover episode.

This is like country meets rock and roll.

I'm not sure which side is country and which side is rock and roll, but this is the biblical world meets on script, classic, like Coke.

Today I have with me Matthew Lynch. Maybe you've heard his voice once or twice at the beginning of these episodes.

And also, Kyle, is it pronounced Kimmer? Kyle Kimmer.

Kimer. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm bad with archaeologist's last names.

So we did an episode on some myths of sacrifice and ritual a few a month or so ago, maybe longer.

I don't remember.

Maybe two months ago.

And Kyle listened to that episode and he thought, oh, there's all kinds of interesting material

world issues going on with ritual and sacrifice that archaeologist would want us to attend to.

And so he has brought a nice, comprehensive list of some myths that from an archaeological

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