To date, no scholar has seriously attempted to identify the three figures described in 4Q175, but many associate them with a father and two sons. However many muslims believe that the three mentioned figures in the said scroll are Mohammad, Jesus and the Mahdi. John Marco Allegro believed them to be Alexander Jannaeus and his sons; Frank Moore Cross identified them as Mattathias and his sons Simon and Judas Maccabee who were all central figures in the Maccabean revolt; while Otto Betz believed they were the Hasmonean king John Hyrcanus and his two sons Aristobulus and Alexander Jannaeus.
