Endnote 18 – A View from the Caves

Almost every composition found in the other ten caves is also found in Cave 4. There are exceptions: Two of the pesharim from Cave 1 (Micah, Habakkuk) were not found in Cave 4; the Genesis Apocryphon is unique to Cave 1. But these are exceptions that prove the rule: Cave 4 provides a cross-section of the Qumran collection.