{"id":1231,"date":"2010-05-31T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/defending-glenn-beck-on-the-dead-sea-scrolls\/"},"modified":"2010-05-31T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T16:58:00","slug":"defending-glenn-beck-on-the-dead-sea-scrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/defending-glenn-beck-on-the-dead-sea-scrolls.html","title":{"rendered":"Defending Glenn Beck on the Dead Sea Scrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Many<\/a> bloggers<\/a> (including some with expertise<\/a> precisely in the area where Beck seems to lack it) have pointed out how much Glenn Beck<\/a> got wrong in his statement<\/a> about Constantine and the Dead Sea Scrolls.<\/p>\n

Finally, a courageous blogger has stepped forward to treat Beck fairly and defend what he got right<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And since someone asked me, here\u2019s a recording of the program<\/a> in which he made the statements in question.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/player.swf<\/p>\n

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