Canada's big biblical bargain

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

Record details

ISBN: 9780773582743 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780773536883 (bound)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 electronic text (xxiv, 424 p.) : digital file.
Publisher: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010

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.