Kalman, Jason, 1974-

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.


Electronic books.

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