Hi, I'm Dr. Scott Hahn, and I want to welcome you to the Road to Amas, a podcast from the St. Paul Center.

Now, the audience today is two-tiered. Why? Because some of you will only be listening to the

audio version, but we're also recording this on video. And why? Well, that's complicated.

I want to give you a list of reasons why we're doing this. This is a kind of episode at

experimentum. First of all, we're in our new headquarters

where we've been now for about 10 months. Second of all, we are in the downstairs studio with a

brand new set. So you all who see this are among the very first to view the set that we have,

and we're really grateful, excited, and proud of it.

Third, I want to introduce a book that I have just recently released entitled Breaking the Bread,

a biblical devotional for Catholics for Year C, the Gospel of Luke coming up.

But I also want to mention a few other tidbits here because we have

the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible at long last, this big, beautiful volume that I think is going

to do a whole lot of good for a whole lot of people. We can talk about that later. We already have

in previous episodes, but I really

want to take advantage of the opportunity today to introduce you to a dear friend, a colleague

at the university and the theology department, and also now someone who is quite active with us

here at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

Dr. Jeffrey Morrow. It's so good to have you.

It's great to be here. And to have you here on the episode of Road to Amos and to have it being video recorded.

I want to talk a little bit about your own background. I'd like you to share a bit, but I wanted

to also mention that we co-authored a book, Modern Biblical Criticism, as a tool of statecraft,

1700 to 1900, that Amas Academic Press was privileged to publish. This is sort of the sequel to

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