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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.