say with certainty where this collection process began, but it certainly continued at Qumran. The large number of single-copy works, some of which are what I have termed “working” texts, points to the active quality of the Cave 4Q collection. That is, this collection was not a frozen relic of a collection brought from elsewhere to be hidden in the caves as several have suggested,110 but was a living collection, being used and added to up until its final deposit in the caves. The presence of these