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Welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Mary, and I'm with Dr. James Prothrow. Thank you for joining.

Thanks for having me.

Glad to have you. What do you do here at the Gutson Institute? I teach, so I'm a professor of scripture and theology, and mostly I teach the courses on the New Testament,

biblical interpretation, and ancient languages.

Okay.

What first started your interest in scriptural studies?

Oh, my gosh.

Careful question.

I mean, so my dad, so I'm a convert to Catholicism, but when I was young,

mom would take me to church. My dad went to a non-denominational church and brought me up to know,

even though I didn't always get the message or want to believe it, just brought me up to

rely strongly on scripture and to

want to know about it. So I think I read, I was like nine years old, I think, and I read the

book of Exodus from beginning to end. That was the first time that I really read a whole Bible book.

And I liked it. And then when I started coming back

to the faith a little bit in college, I came back and I read the sermon on the mount and I read Galatians

and I read Colossians and was hooked because I was getting a little bit more theology. And then

after that, I just kind of haven't really wanted to stop

talking about it. We're grateful that the voice right has led you on this path because we are very

blessed to learn from you here. So this episode, we want to talk about St. David from the Old Testament.

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