Yes, it is true that a manuscript written on skin or papyrus has a limited lifespan if it is left "on a shelf" in a non-arid climates like Jerusalem (and the rest of the Southern Levant, aside from its deserts). However, these materials can and do survive for several hundred years under normal room-climate conditions.
My point with the scroll found in the house of YHWH was not that the story happened as told. It was that the story was told as it was told.
Thanks for your comment, Walter.
Yes, it is true that a manuscript written on skin or papyrus has a limited lifespan if it is left "on a shelf" in a non-arid climates like Jerusalem (and the rest of the Southern Levant, aside from its deserts). However, these materials can and do survive for several hundred years under normal room-climate conditions.
My point with the scroll found in the house of YHWH was not that the story happened as told. It was that the story was told as it was told.