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Canada's big biblical bargain [electronic resource] : how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls / Jason Kalman and Jaqueline S. du Toit

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Kalman, Jason, 1974-
Published
Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xxiv, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-
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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.
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ISBN
9780773536883 (bound)
0773536884 (bound)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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