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NT306 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Craig Evans combines his extensive knowledge of ancient manuscripts and New Testament studies in this course. He provides the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their discovery, and the Essenes, and shows how they affect our understanding of Jesus, John the Baptist, and the early church.

For one thing, the scrolls are from antiquity. They go back to the time of Jesus and earlier. Most of them are from the first century, some of them—the very oldest ones—may reach back all the way to the third century BC. What are they?