Medinan Jews who accepted Muhammad may descend from Qumran sectaries expecting a Messiah

Evidence

For Pedro’s interesting idea that an heretical Jew may have influenced Muhammad, cf. the theory of the modern Jewish scholar, Chaim Rabin, who thinks that the Medinan Jews who acceded to the party of the Prophet may have been a remnant of the Qumran community, who were expecting a Messiah to come very shortly. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2049

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the Rabin thesis connecting early Medinan converts to the Qumran community and messianic expectation is a striking historical hypothesis.
• SEED: Angle: the medieval Christian claim that an apostate Jew shaped Muhammad’s religion, re-read through a modern scholar’s Qumran hypothesis — outsized influence of fringe sectarians on world religion.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2049
• XREF: connects to: Medina’s Jews may have been Qumran remnant sectaries expecting a Messiah — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2277

Broader Connections

• Medina’s Jews may have been Qumran remnant sectaries expecting a Messiah #corroborates (1.00) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2277