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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalman, Jason, 1974-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
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Table of 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.