Abstract
The most popular hypothesis to account for the presence of over 800 scrolls in the caves surrounding the site of Qumran beside the Dead Sea is the tquick hiding scenario,t whereby a library at the site was hidden away ahead of the Roman invasion (in 68 C.E.). This chapter reviews evidence relating to the scrolls and caves, and also clarifies terminology. As will be seen, this review leads to concur that the corpus we know as the Dead Sea Scrolls includes within it a genizah (temporary store) of manuscripts yet to be buried, but overall my investigations have led to a different conclusion, namely that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the surviving, extant fraction of a huge manuscript cemetery that cannot have been quickly hidden away at one critical moment in time. Keywords:Buried Manuscripts; Dead Sea; Genizah Theory; Qumran
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