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Kalman, Jason, 1974-

Canada's big biblical bargain how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls / [electronic resource] : Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit. - Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 424 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : "I should perhaps recall to you..." -- "Telling tales of the early days" : McGill buys the Dead Sea Scrolls -- "We must ride out the crisis" : the efforts to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls to Montreal -- The real question : the nation, the object, and owning the past -- "The harvest of this patient waiting" -- Annotated correspondence -- Transcription of R.B.Y. Scott's handlist of Qumran cave four fragments purchased by McGill University as of May 1955.

ISBN: 9780773582743 (electronic bk.) 0773582746 (electronic bk.)

Source: 22573/ctt6xw2w JSTOR

Subjects--Corporate Names:
McGill University--History--20th century.
McGill University. Archives.
McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies --Archives.
Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.
Israel. Rashut ha-atikot.
Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.
McGill University.
McGill University. Archives.
McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies.

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q.
Dead Sea scrolls.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900 - 1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Acquisition of manuscripts--History--Québec (Province)--Montréal--20th century.
RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Acquisition of manuscripts.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Québec--Montréal.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Archives.
History.

LC Class. No.: BM488.5 / .K35 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 296.1/55