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Author Kalman, Jason, 1974-

Title Canada's big biblical bargain : how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls / Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit
Published Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 424 pages) : illustrations
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
Analysis JSTOR-DDA
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q
Acquisition of manuscripts Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century
Scott, R.B.Y. (Robert Balgarnie Young), 1899 Correspondence
Cultural property Protection Jordan History
McGill University History 20th century
McGill University. Archives
McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies Archives
Israel. Rashut ha-atikot
Acquisition of manuscripts Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century Sources
Multi-User
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject McGill University -- History -- 20th century
McGill University. Archives.
McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies -- Archives
Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.
Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot
McGill University
McGill University. Archives
McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies
SUBJECT Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91125552
Dead Sea scrolls fast
Subject Acquisition of manuscripts -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Acquisition of manuscripts
Québec -- Montréal
Genre/Form Electronic books
Archives
History
Form Electronic book
Author Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-
ISBN 9780773582743
0773582746
9781283530941
1283530945