Dr. Brandon Hurlbert is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Durham University, where he received his PhD. He is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of the Bible and Violence and a co-host on the Two Cities Podcast. He has published essays on biblical violence, hermeneutics, and the Bible and film, most recently: “Taking the Absurdity Seriously: Questioning the Complicity of YHWH in Judges 20–21,” in Violent Biblical Texts: New Approaches, edited by Helen Paynter and Trevor Laurence (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022).