Hey, y'all, unscript listeners.

This is going to be the last podcast of our 2016 year, our 22nd episode.

I want to thank all of you for listening and joining us in this new adventure.

Matt and I have really found this to be a rich experience in getting to connect with some of our heroes in the field, some of our

friends, and also to hear from you and the way that this has been helpful to so many people.

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Okay, now on to the interview.

Welcome to the OnScript podcast.

I'm here with a longtime friend Mary Catherine Homm.

Mary and I got to know each other when we both did our

graduate studies at Regent College in Vancouver, and we've stayed good friends since then.

So Mary is an Old Testament scholar and does a lot of work in missions as well, so I'm really

interested to talk to you about the convergence of those two things,

because often they're held worlds apart. Mary received her PhD from Cambridge and her THM from

Regent College of Vancouver, and she is the author of the characterization of the Assyrians in Isaiah, Synchronic and Diacronic Perspectives.

So, Mary, thanks for joining Onscript.

Thanks so much, Matt.

So I was just thinking about where to start this interview, and I think might help our listeners if you share a little bit about your journey, your story,

and how that led you into biblical scholarship, but also this desire to kind of weave together

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