Canada's big biblical bargain how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls / [electronic resource] :
Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit.
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
- xxiv, 424 p. : ill., port.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
McGill University--History--20th century. McGill University. Archives. McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies --Archives. Israel. Rashut ha-�ati�kot.
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q.
Acquisition of manuscripts--History--Qu�ebec (Province)--Montr�eal--20th century.