The Gospels in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls, John Burgs, next.

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcasts for Living Understanding and defending your Catholic

faith. I'm Cy Kelle at your host. One of the things we have to defend our

Catholic faith against is kind of the idea that modern scholarship

debunks the Gospels or somehow shows them

not to be legitimate and helpful and accurate historical documents.

The truth is nothing could be farther from the truth. Modern

discoveries of ancient documents, modern studies of ancient languages and

ancient practices have shed a lot of light on just how really stunningly

historically accurate and helpful the Gospels are and just how well situated

they are in their time they are clearly documents of the first

century. The Dead Sea Scrawls play an important role in that discovered only

about 70 years ago in the deserts of the Holy Land. in that

the deserts of the Holy Land, the Dead Sea Scrolls, it turns out, shine a great deal of light on the environment,

the cultural environment, the religious environment,

in which Jesus, our Lord, ministered and one of the person,

one of the people who's doing great work in helping us uncover the light that's being shown

on the Gospels by the Dead Sea Scrolls is Dr. John Bergsema.

He's a professor at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, and he's got a book in 2019 just came out.

Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls revealing the Jewish roots of Christianity.

It's an exciting read for a Christian who wants to see what the world was like when the

Lord walked here upon the earth. Here's Dr. John Bergsema.

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