Canada's big biblical bargain how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls

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ISBN: 9780773582743 (e-book)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
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xxiv, 424 p. : ill., port.
Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.