ABSTRACT
The story which is told us by the manuscripts from Cave I of Qumrân is far from coherent. Apart from a few rare exceptions, there is nothing in one manuscript or group of fragments to relate it to another roll coming from the same cave. It is said that three of the four rolls formerly named after St. Mark’s Monastery had been found in the same jar, but the statement to that effect was only made after a considerable lapse of time, and is very doubtful. Even if it is true, the only deduction that can be made from that fact is that the rolls were perhaps taken to the cave at the same time. But they are not equally old, nor are they from the same place of origin. The same is also true about the other manuscripts and fragments found in the same cave. In a similar way, within a cemetery may be found dead of all ages and of different countries.
