# 81 – The Discovery That Transformed Our Understanding of Scripture | Dr. Rebekah Haigh

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Podcast: [Messiah Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/messiah-podcast-5670737)
Published: 2025-10-21T09:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In 1947, a Bedouin goat herder stumbled on a collection of clay jars filled with ancient scrolls by the Dead Sea in Israel. When these scrolls made it to scholars and antiquity dealers, it became clear that they had been written around the time Jesus walked the earth. Today, the Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the best examples we have of Second Temple Jewish literature. Our guest on this episode is Dr. Rebekah Haigh, and she joins us to discuss how the Dead Sea Scrolls revolutionized New Testam...

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