in California in 1999. In 2012, Drew Bostwick renamed a splinter faction of the neo-Nazi group Aryan Nations the "Tabernacle of the Phineas Priesthood-Aryan Nations" when he replaced August Kreis as the group's leader. On November 28, 2014, 49-year-old Larry Steven McQuilliams fired more than 100 rounds at a federal courthouse, a Mexican consulate building (which he also tried to set on fire), and a police station in Austin, Texas; he was killed by return fire from police. A copy of Hoskins' book was found in McQuilliams' home. Name The Phineas Priesthood is named after the Israelite Phineas, grandson of Aaron (). According to Numbers 25, Phineas personally executed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman while they were together in the man's tent, ending a plague which had been sent by God in order to punish the Israelites for intermingling both sexually and religiously with Baal-worshipers. Phineas is commended for having stopped Israel's fall into idolatrous practices which were introduced to it by Moabite women. God commends Phineas as zealous through Moses, gives him a "covenant of peace," and grants him and "his seed" an everlasting priesthood. This passage was cited in Hoskins' book as a justification for using violent means against people who have interracial relationships and practice other forms of alleged immorality. See also Antisemitism in Christianity The Bible and violence Christianity and violence Christian terrorism Byron De La Beckwith, the assassin of NAACP and Civil rights movement leader Medgar Evers became a Phineas Priest Larry Gene Ashbrook, a mass murderer who allegedly was a self-professed Phineas Priest Far-right subcultures Groups claiming affiliation with Israelites List of Christian denominations#Christian Identitist List of Christian movements#Religious List of fascist movements List of Ku Klux Klan organizations List of neo-Nazi organizations List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups#Christian Identity List of white nationalist organizations References External links The Order and Phineas Priesthood by the Anti-Defamation League Overview by the Southern Poverty Law Center Anthony Rees, [Re]Reading Again: A Mosaic Reading of Numbers 25, A thesis submitted to Charles Sturt University for a PhD, 2013. Chapter "A Violent Turn. The Phinehas Priesthood" (p. 126ff). Accessed 15 August 2018 Christian organizations established in 1990 American bank robbers Christian Identity Christianity and antisemitism Christianity and race Christian advocacy groups Neo-Nazi concepts Christian new religious movements Religiously motivated violence in the United States Terrorism in the United States