However, the historical transmission of 1 Enoch assumes that the basis of the text must likewise fall to unknown authors, or tend to the idea that it was a pseudepigraphon text. For some scholars, this lends itself, as such texts invariably have, to questioning the originality and legitimacy of the book. But bearing in mind the "eleven" Enochic manuscripts discovered at Qumran, which contain one or several of the various Enochic 'booklets' known there — totals "higher than for most of the books that became parts of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament," and recalling also "the cost and labor involved in producing a manuscript in antiquity" — such inordinate numbers representing the Enochic stockpile "say much about the value accorded" such writings (VanderKam, 2008/1995, p. 184).