low elevation and its position in a deep basin, the climate of the Dead Sea area is unusual. It's very high evaporation produces a haze, yet its atmospheric humidity is low. Surrounding areas to it are very arid and favorable for the preservation of materials like the Dead Sea Scrolls.
             There are many explanations to why the scrolls were placed here. Most historians reason from the traditions of Jewish scribes burying their scrolls when they were old and no longer usable. Therefore, if all the Qumran scrolls were old when they were buried, it's likely the caves were merely burial places for Scriptures sacred to the people who lived there. Some of the scrolls are, indeed, ancient. The Enoch scroll was copied in Aramaic (a form of Hebrew) sometime between 200-150 B.C. In this fragment humankind is called to observe how unchanging nature follows God's will. Leviticus was found in 1956, it was probably copied during the late 2nd/early 1st century B.C.E. Hosea also dates from the late 1st century B.C. Out of the thousands o
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