The Archaeology of Palestine

This book is written for the reader who wants an authoritative and clearly written account of the subject. The author has been engaged in active excavations and research in this field since 1920, and he has utilized his command of it to write a survey which emphasizes the most important and most interesting phases of Palestinian archaeology. Besides summarizing the results of the archaeological work of the past twenty years, during which the subject has been revolutionized, he describes, and sets in their proper historical perspective, the recent discoveries in Sinai and the sensational finding of the Jerusalem Scroll of Isaiah.