Canada's big biblical bargain
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
McGill University--History--20th century.
McGill University. Archives.
McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies --Archives.
Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q.
Acquisition of manuscripts--History--Québec (Province)--Montréal--20th century.
Electronic books.
BM488.5 / .K35 2010eb
296.1/55
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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
McGill University--History--20th century.
McGill University. Archives.
McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies --Archives.
Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q.
Acquisition of manuscripts--History--Québec (Province)--Montréal--20th century.
Electronic books.
BM488.5 / .K35 2010eb
296.1/55