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My name is Maude Gonzalez.

I'm here with Dr. Ken Johnson talking about your new book.

Welcome.

Thank you.

And for our audience, you know, you have three books in one here.

It's just been recently published really last month.

Kind of share with them, if you will, what's in here?

Well, basically, we're trying to bring back the missing knowledge from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

So we have what's called the 400 silent years, and nobody seems to know what happened.

Jews were Jews back in the time of Ezra and then you get to Matthew chapter one and there's Pharisees and Sadducees and

his scenes and scribes and they're all trying to kill each other. What in the world happen?

Well, we don't know because nobody wants to talk about it. Well the Pharisees didn't. Most of our

history from that time period comes from the Talmud and the Pharisees didn't. Most of our history from that time

period comes from the Talmud and the Pharisees. So now with the scrolls, they have actual data

on what happened, what their theology was and why. And it's just amazing for both Christians

and Jews. You know, it's interesting when you think about the Intertestamental period, again,

that the silent time, you know, that God had prophesied in Amos, there's going to be a, you know, it's interesting when you think about the Intertestamental period, again, that the silent time, you know, that God had prophesied in Amos, there's going to be a, you know, a famine of the word. But yet here in 1947 with the Dead Sea Scrolls being found truly changed archaeology. It changed the really biblical studies world and giving us an insight because on this

side of it, I know when I was in school, it was like before this, the Jews were thought of being

very monolithic and their theology, very rabbinical, but in reality, the Dead Sea Schools blow that

completely out of the water. Yeah, the basic idea is that they understood everything.

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