Canada's big biblical bargainhow McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrollsKalman, Jason1974-creatorDu Toit, Jaqueline S.1970-textbibliographyElectronic books.Archives.History.qucMontréalMcGill-Queen's University Pressc20102010monographiceng1 online resource (xxiv, 424 p.) : ill.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.Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit.Includes bibliographical references and index.n-cn-quaw-----Dead Sea scrolls<partNumber>4Q</partNumber>Acquisition of manuscriptsQuébec (Province)MontréalHistory20th centuryMcGill UniversityHistory20th centuryMcGill University.Archives.McGill University.Faculty of Religious StudiesArchivesIsrael.Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred WritingsIsrael.Rashut ha-atikot.SOCIAL SCIENCE / ArchaeologyIsrael.Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.McGill University.McGill University.Archives.McGill University.Faculty of Religious Studies.Dead Sea scrollsAcquisition of manuscriptsQuébecMontréal
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