A collection of manuscript fragments of the Old Testament and related works, considered by Biblical scholars to be of immense significance, has been purchased by. McGill University after lengthy negotiations with the Jordan Government. The McGill documents include one-quarter of those found in a cave in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea, in September, 1952.
Although McGill is now the owner of these manuscripts, they will not arrive in Montreal for two years – not until after they have been cleaned, sorted, classified, compared with other fragments assembled and mounted between sheets of glass. The entire collection is to be published by the Oxford University Press.
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