 | Canada''s Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q; Acquisition of manuscripts -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century; Scott R. B. Y. (Robert Balgarnie Young) 1899 -- Correspondence; Cultural property -- Protection -- Jordan -- History; McGill University -- Hist; The story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century. Jason Kalman is an assistant professor of classical Hebrew text and interpretation at Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, research fellow at the University of the Free State, and a fellow of the McGill Centre for Research on Religion. Jaqueline S. du Toit is a professor in the Department of Afroasiatic Studies, Sign Language, and Language Practice at the University of the Free State and a fellow of the McGill Centre for Research on Religion. |
