TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kalman,Jason
AU  - Du Toit,Jaqueline S.
TI  - Canada's big biblical bargain: how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls 
SN  - 9780773582743 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BM488.5 .K35 2010eb
U1  - 296.1/55 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Montréal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - McGill University
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Archives
KW  - Faculty of Religious Studies
KW  - Israel
KW  - Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot
KW  - Rashut ha-atikot
KW  - fast
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - 4Q
KW  - Acquisition of manuscripts
KW  - Québec (Province)
KW  - Montréal
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - Québec
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt80bs4
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