Kalman, Jason,  1974- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780773582743 (electronic bk.) 0773582746 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt6xw2w  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>McGill University--History--20th century.<br/>McGill University. Archives. <br/>McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies --Archives.<br/>Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot. <br/>Israel. Rashut ha-atikot. <br/>Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot. <br/>McGill University.<br/>McGill University. Archives. <br/>McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q. <br/>Dead Sea scrolls.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900 - 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Acquisition of manuscripts--History--Québec (Province)--Montréal--20th century.<br/>RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology<br/>Acquisition of manuscripts.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Québec--Montréal.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Archives.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM488.5  / .K35 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.1/55