Canada's big biblical bargain : how McGill University bought the Dead Sea scrolls /
Presents the story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.
| Основен автор: | Kalman, Jason, 1974- |
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| Други автори: | Du Toit, Jaqueline S., 1970- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=403851 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Canada's big biblical bargain. |
Съдържание:
- 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.