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Canada's big biblical bargain [electronic resource] : how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls / Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 424 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780773582743 (electronic bk.)
  • 0773582746 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Canada's big biblical bargain.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/55 22
LOC classification:
  • BM488.5 .K35 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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