Popular accounts of archaeological excavations serve a double purpose: For the non-professional, they provide readable and comprehensive summaries; for the scholar, they serve as a temporary substitute for the excavator’s final report which, unfortunately, is often long delayed. Thus, for example, both layman and scholar can be grateful for Kathleen Kenyon’s Digging Up Jericho, published in 1957, which provides a kind of interim report on her important work on the Tell of Jericho in the years 1952–1958. The final and complete report on this excavation has not yet been published. Miss Kenyon’s new book on Jerusalem entitled Digging Up […]
