Welcome to Follow Him, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping individuals and families with their

Come Follow Me study. I'm Hank Smith and I'm John by the way. We love to learn, we love to laugh,

we want to learn and laugh with you. As together we follow him.

Hello my friends, welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith.

I'm your host, I'm here with my clean-handed and pure-hearted co-host John by the way.

John you are clean-handed and pure-hearted. Did you know that?

Hand sanitizer has blessed my life, thank you. Anyone whose favorite television show

is the Andy Griffith show has clean hands and a pure heart.

I know, some's got it in some way. That's perfect. That is clean hands and a pure heart.

Hey John, that phrase comes from the book of Psalms. We brought a Bible scholar who's joining us.

Well we're really excited to have Sean Hopkins back because he was here when we talked about the

fall and Cain and in fact it's one of our most listened to podcasts. It's such a great topic because

Sean did such a great job. So we have Dr. Sean Hopkins here and just to refresh our listeners'

memories. He was born in Denton, Texas, son of Lorraine Hopkins and Arden Hopkins.

He attended Southwest High School in Fort Worth but graduated from Oram High School, received

a bachelor's degree in Masters from BYU in near Eastern studies with a focus on the Hebrew Bible,

received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and Hebrew studies will focus on medieval

Hebrew, Arabic, and Spanish literature. Hank, it just blows me away that people that we bring on

here and how widely read and educated they are. Before coming to BYU, he taught in the seminaries

a Tim Fieu, a Provo six years of the Austin Institute of Religion. He served as chair of the Book of

Mormon Academy, chair of the BYU Religious Outreach Council. He's one of the principal organizers of

the ongoing Jewish and Letter Day Saint Academic Interfaith Dialogue Project. He and his wife

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