Christian Origin Theory:

Although one can find undoubtedly some prevalent features shared in between different Jewish sectarian groups, the majority of historians deny there is any kind of link among the Christians and the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There is certainly little to claim that the Christians at the moment had been as secluded or even as interested in elaborate traditions of purity and chastity as the Jews. O'Callaghan-Martinez has asserted that one fragment (7Q5) displays a part of textual content from the New Testament Gospel of Mark 6:52-53.

In the past few years, Robert Eisenman has advanced the theory in which a few scrolls essentially illustrate the first Christian community. Eisenman also attempted to relate the career of James the Just and the Apostle Paul - Saul of Tarsus to some of those records. This continues to be speculative and is also invalidated by a massive majority of academicians studying Judaism in the early Roman period.