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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 424 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780773582743
  • 0773582746
  • 9781283530941
  • 1283530945
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
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: Presents the story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.

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.

Print version record.

Presents the story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.