Can We Trust the Bible? The Dead Sea Scrolls, Ancient Manuscripts & 2,000 Years of Evidence

Can We Trust the Bible? The Dead Sea Scrolls, Ancient Manuscripts & 2,000 Years of Evidence

Published: August 13, 2026

Duration: 1:11:42

Can we actually trust the Bible we have today? Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient biblical manuscripts, scribes, the biblical canon, William Tyndale, the Gutenberg Bible, the King James Bible, and thousands of years of textual transmission tell an incredible story. For the first episode of Broadcasting Seeds: The Second Incursion, Bennett Tanton traces the physical and historical journey of the Bible from ancient scrolls to the book—and app—you can open today. We begin near the Dead Sea, where the discovery of ancient scrolls at Qumran gave scholars biblical manuscripts more than a thousand years older than many previously available Hebr...