Canada's Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls
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2010
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Canada's Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Montreal & Kingston
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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xxiv + 424
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Providing many vibrant details, the authors examine the intrigue surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls and debunk many of the myths about them, including allegations of the Vatican’s involvement in hiding the texts from scholars, the possibility that they contained earth shattering revelations, and the actual status of the infamous international editorial committee who limited access to the texts. A fascinating account of international relations, religious negotiation, and scholars, Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain reveals another part of the fascinating tale of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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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.
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23/08/2010
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