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• More recently, archaeologists such as Professor Norman Golb have published comprehensive, well-researched and well-argued theories for the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. For example, in his excellent book Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search For The Secret Of Qumran, Professor Golb argues that given the large numbers of scrolls, and the many different sites in which they have now been found, and the different handwriting, and given what we know of other historical events happening at the time (such as the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and the Bar Kokhba Revolt in A.D. 135), it is better to understand the Dead Sea Scrolls as manuscripts belonging to different groups, largely independently, stored in caves by different groups of people at different times, to prevent them from being destroyed in the destruction of both A.D. 70 and A.D. 135, rather than by one single group, the Essenes, as the Jesuits of the Catholic Church proposed.