Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

===Jerusalem origin theory===
Some scholars have argued that the scrolls were the product of Jews living in Jerusalem who hid the scrolls in the caves near Qumran while fleeing from the [[Roman Empire|Romans]] during the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)|destruction of Jerusalem]] in 70&nbsp;CE.<ref>Chernoivanenko, Vitaly. "[http://history.ukma.edu.ua/docs/faculty/chernoivanenko/publications/chernoivanenko_jerusalem-theoryen.pdf The Jerusalem Theory of the Dead Sea Scrolls Authorship: Origins, Evolution, and Discussions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317215902/http://history.ukma.edu.ua/docs/faculty/chernoivanenko/publications/chernoivanenko_jerusalem-theoryen.pdf |date=17 March 2016 }}," in ''Ukrainian Orientalistics: Special Issue on Jewish Studies'', Кyiv: NaUKMA Omeljan Pritsak Center for Oriental Studies, 2011: 9–29.</ref> Karl Heinrich Rengstorf first proposed in the 1960s that the Dead Sea Scrolls originated at the library of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.<ref>Rengstorf, Karl Heinrich. ''Hirbet Qumran und die Bibliothek vom Toten Meer''. Translated by J.R. Wilkie. Stuttgart: [[Kohlhammer Verlag]], 1960.{{page?|date=September 2024}}{{ISBN?}}</ref> Later, [[Norman Golb]] suggested that the scrolls were the product of multiple libraries in Jerusalem and not necessarily the Jerusalem Temple library.<ref>Golb, Norman, "On the Jerusalem Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls", University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 5 June 2009.</ref><ref>Golb, Norman, ''Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for the Secret of Qumran'', New York: Scribner, 1995.{{ISBN?}} {{page needed|date=September 2022}}</ref> Proponents of the Jerusalem origin theory point to the diversity of thought and handwriting among the scrolls as evidence against a Qumran origin of the scrolls. Several archaeologists have also accepted an origin of the scrolls other than Qumran, including [[Yizhar Hirschfeld]]<ref>Hirschfeld, Yizhar, ''Qumran in Context: Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence'', Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. {{ISBN?}}{{page needed|date=September 2022}}</ref> and more recently Yizhak Magen and Yuval Peleg,<ref>{{cite web |first1=Magen |last1=Yizhak |first2=Yuval |last2=Peleg |title=The Qumran Excavations 1993–2004: Preliminary Report'', JSP 6 |publisher=Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority |year=2007 |url=http://www.antiquities.org.il/images/shop/jsp/JSP6_Qumran_color.pdf |access-date=7 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128071000/http://www.antiquities.org.il/images/shop/jsp/JSP6_Qumran_color.pdf |archive-date=28 November 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> who all understand the remains of Qumran to be those of a [[Hasmonean dynasty|Hasmonean]] fort that was reused during later periods.