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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Kalman, Jason, 1974-
• TeilnehmendeR: Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxiv, 424 p. :; ill., port.

Table of 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.