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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalman, Jason, 1974-

Contributor:

Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McGill University--History--20th century.

McGill University.

McGill University. Archives.

McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies--Archives.

Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.

Israel.

Dead Sea scrolls--4Q.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Acquisition of manuscripts--Québec (Province)--Montréal--History--20th century.

Acquisition of manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents the story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-53094-5

9786613843395

0-7735-8274-6

OCLC:

806255242