‘Recristianization’ of the Dead Sea Scrolls: common features between the texts of Qumrān and the primitive Christianity (a revision)

Abstract

The Dead Sea Scrolls are supposed to be one of the most relevant discoveries of the past century because they pretended to take up the period in blank between the Classical and Rabbinical Judaism and the Old and New Testament. However, first studies were focused on the relation of this collection with the emergent Christianism and its affiliation with the figure of Jesus. In the last years, the preeminent investigation’s line is based on the ‘recristianization’ of these manuscripts, in the search for elements in order to help us to understand how the origins of the Christianism come from the plural character of Judaism of this period.