Posted: Jul 24, 2015 11:37 am
It is entirely plausible that whoever placed the variety of scrolls and tfillin in the caves were transporting them from one location to another, and were forced to deposit them in the caves along the way.There would be no other rationale for discarding them far away in a geniza cave. Rabbinic law specifies storing discarded religious books in clay vessels, but discarding them so far out wouldn't make sense unless they were being transferred elsewhere and got held up.