E-book
Canada's big biblical bargain how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls
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- ISBN: 9780773582743 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0773582746 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780773536883
- ISBN: 0773536884
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1 online resource (xxiv, 424 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user. Terms of use - 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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