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Conclusion

  • While the scrolls tell us nothing directly about Jesus or early Christianity, they tell us a great deal about:
  • the language Jesus spoke,
  • theological concepts as ‘Messiah’ and ‘Son of God,’
  • the way Jesus and early Christians understood and interpreted the Hebrew Bible,
  • the other Jewish movements that were swirling around in the ideological and theological controversy of Judea at the time.

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