What is a Dead Sea Scroll? and why are the "dead"?
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they're made out of parchment (dead plant fibre) or vellum - (dead animal skin)
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They are not dead. They are named after the Dead Sea. http://www.centuryone.com/25dssfacts.html
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A Dead Sea scroll is one of many ancient scrolls found in a cave near the Dead Sea. It's not that the scrolls themselves are dead (though I would be interested if you have any living scrolls lying about), but that they were named for their location by the Dead Sea. The Dead Sea is dead because it is too salty for animals and large plants to survive in it (though some bacteria and fungi can live there). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_sea_scrolls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_sea#Fauna_and_flora
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