Canada's Big Biblical Bargain

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.

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations PART ONE 1 Introduction: "I should perhaps recall to you ..."; 2 "Telling tales of the early days": McGill Buys the Dead Sea Scrolls; 3 "We must ride out the crisis": The Efforts to Bring the Dead Sea Scrolls to Montreal; 4 The Real Question: The Nation, the Object, and Owning the Past; Postscript "The harvest of this patient waiting" PART TWO Annotated Correspondence; Appendix Transcription of R.B.Y. Scott's Handlist of Qumran Cave; Four fragments purchased by McGill University as of May 1955 Notes 315; Bibliography; Index

"With several Canadian museums having exhibited the Dead Sea Scrolls, Canada's Big Biblical Bargain could not be timelier. It fills a distinctive void, and is a serious advance in state-of-the-art research. It will without a doubt become the authoritative source on how the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Canada became firmly established." Peter W. Flint, Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies, Trinity Western University