Canada's big biblical bargain : how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls /

Canada's big biblical bargain : how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls /

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Main Author: Kalman, Jason, 1974- (Author)

Other Authors: Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-

Format: Book

Language: English

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McGill University > History > 20th century.
McGill University. > Archives.
McGill University. > Faculty of Religious Studies > Archives.
Israel. > Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Acquisition of manuscripts > Québec (Province) > Montréal > History > 20th century.

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Call Number: BM487 .K35 2010

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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