The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in February 1947 was heralded as a momentous discovery for Jews and Christians.  However, they have been surrounded by controversy particularly with respect to censorship (by the Catholic scholars) and 'selective' scholarship - accusations rejected by Dr. Thiering.  She has felt that sufficient and timely access was always available to her.

There are many copies of old testament documents, most notably Isaiah - 1,000 years older than any extant copy.  But there are 18 unique scrolls which Dr. Thiering has focused on from which she has derived the pesher technique that she has used to unlock the New Testament (and other texts) along with extensive scholarship on such matters as the competing calendars at the time.

However, one aspect with which Dr Thiering objects is the so-called 'dating' of the scrolls which always seem to point to a period long before Jesus.  Taking the contemporaneous discoveries at Nag Hammadi in Egypt of the Gnostic gospels, Thiering makes the direct connection with what the gospels and other new testament documents say about Jesus.  Ironically, the provable key to the life of Jesus has been deliberately inserted into these gospels and documents themselves via an underlying story, ascertainable to those cued up (by the pesher) to listen to it.  Importantly, the application of the pesher technique is repeatable.

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