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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kalman, Jason, 1974-
Imprint:	Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 424 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
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. Dead Sea scrolls. -- 4Q. Dead Sea scrolls. Acquisition of manuscripts -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century. Acquisition of manuscripts. Québec -- Montréal. Archives. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121075

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-
ISBN:	9780773582743 0773582746 9780773536883 0773536884
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Presents the story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.
Other form:	Print version: Kalman, Jason, 1974- Canada's big biblical bargain. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010 9780773536883

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.