Canada's big biblical bargain how McGill University bought the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Tag hinzufügen | Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | xxiv, 424 p. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780773536883 978-0-7735-3688-3 |