| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 424 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Presents the story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q.
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McGill University -- History -- 20th century.
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McGill University. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
McGill University. Archives.
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McGill University. Archives. |
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McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies -- Archives.
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| Genre/Form |
Archives.
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| Subject |
Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot.
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Israel. Rashut ha-ʻatiḳot. |
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McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies. |
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Israel. Rashut ha-atikot. |
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Dead Sea scrolls. |
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Acquisition of manuscripts -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century.
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Acquisition of manuscripts. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Indexed Term |
JSTOR-DDA |
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Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q |
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Acquisition of manuscripts Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century |
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Scott, R.B.Y. (Robert Balgarnie Young), 1899 Correspondence |
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Cultural property Protection Jordan History |
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McGill University History 20th century |
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McGill University. Archives |
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McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies Archives |
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Israel. Rashut ha-atikot |
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Acquisition of manuscripts Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century Sources |
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Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kalman, Jason, 1974- Canada's big biblical bargain. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2010 9780773536883 (DLC) 2010283016 (OCoLC)649281417 |
| ISBN |
9780773582743 (electronic book) |
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0773582746 (electronic book) |
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9780773536883 |
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0773536884 |
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