E-book
Canada's big biblical bargain [electronic resource] / Jason Kalman, Jaqueline S. du Toit.
Presents the story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773582743 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 electronic text (xxiv, 424 p.) : digital file.
- Publisher: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:january.17 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. Multi-User. |
| 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: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also available in print version. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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