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Sad, careless old fools around scripture (4,3,7)

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I believe the answer is:

dead sea scrolls

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'sad careless old fools around scripture' is the definition.
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'sad careless old fools' is the wordplay.
'fools' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'sad'+'careless'+'old'='sadcarelessold'
'sadcarelessold' is an anagram of 'DEAD SEA SCROLLS'.

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(Other definitions for dead sea scrolls that I've seen before include "ancient documents" , "Documents found at Qumran" , "Old documents" , "ancient scriptures?" , "Historic documents" .)

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