Canada's Big Biblical Bargain: How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls PDF
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C:\Users\Public\MQUP\Kalman\Kalman-Ch00-Prelims.indd, 2/26/2010 1:59 PM i canada’s big biblical bargain This page intentionally left blank C:\Users\Public\MQUP\Kalman\Kalman-Ch00-Prelims.indd, 2/26/2010 1:59 PM iii Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain How McGill University Bought the Dead Sea Scrolls jason kalman and jaqueline s. du toit McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca C:\Users\Public\MQUP\Kalman\Kalman-Ch00-Prelims.indd, 3/24/2010 6:47 AM iv © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2010 isbn 978-0-7735-3688-3 Legal deposit second quarter 2010 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Funding has also been received from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and the University of the Free State. McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp) for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data Kalman, Jason, 1974– Canada’s big biblical bargain / Jason Kalman, Jaqueline S. du Toit. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-7735-3688-3 1. Dead Sea scrolls. 4Q. 2. Acquisition of manuscripts – Québec (Province) – Montréal – History – 20th century. 3. Scott, R. B. Y. (Robert Balgarnie Young), 1899– – Correspondence. 4. Cultural property – Protection – Jordan – History. 5. McGill University – History – 20th century. 6. McGill University. Archives. 7. McGill University. Faculty of Religious Studies – Archives. 8. Israel. Rashut ha-atikot. 9. Acquisition of manuscripts – Québec (Province) – Montréal – History – 20th century – Sources. I. Du Toit, Jacqueline S., 1970–. II. Title bm487.k34 2010 296.1’55 c2010-900375-6 Typeset by Jay Tee Graphics Ltd. in 10/12 Sabon C:\Users\Public\MQUP\Kalman\Kalman-Ch00-Prelims.indd, 2/26/2010 1:59 PM v To dana & pierre and b. barry levy Friend, Teacher, and Mentor This page intentionally left blank C:\Users\Public\MQUP\Kalman\Kalman-Ch00-Prelims.indd, 2/26/2010 1:59 PM vii Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Foreword xv Preface xix Abbreviations xxiii part one 1 Introduction: “I should perhaps recall to you …” 3 2 “Telling tales of the early days”: McGill Buys the Dead Sea Scrolls 21 3 “We must ride out the crisis”: The Efforts to Bring the Dead Sea Scrolls to Montreal 79 4 The Real Question: The Nation, the Object, and Owning the Past 123 Postscript “The harvest of this patient waiting” 135 part two Annotated Correspondence 139 Appendix Transcription of R.B.Y. Scott’s Handlist of Qumran Cave Four fragments purchased by McGill University as of May 1955 308 Notes 319 Bibliography 387 Index 407 This page intentionally left blank C:\Users\Public\MQUP\Kalman\Kalman-Ch00-Prelims.indd, 2/26/2010 1:59 PM ix Illustrations R. B. Y. Scott 24 Roland de Vaux and G. Lankester Harding 25 F. Cyril James 35 Cave 4 Fragments Purchased for McGill – pam 41.207 62 Cave 4 Fragments Purchased for McGill – pam 41.208 63 Cave 4 Fragments Purchased for McGill – pam 41.209 64 Cave 4 Fragments Purchased for McGill – pam 41.210 65 Enlargement of McGill Marking “S” on Fragments from pam 66 Scholars at work in the Jerusalem Scrollery – pam 41.212 66 Stanley Frost 95 Papyrus Fragments in the Collection of McGill’s Redpath Museum 136
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