Yigael Yadin distinguished himself in many roles—as a general, as an archaeologist, as a historian, as a scrollster and as a politician. On his performance of these roles, save that of scrollster, I have little information to add or ability to judge. For instance, I cannot assess his skills and faults as an archaeologist; I can merely note that he was continuously in the field, as the pontiffs of that profession then approved; and that he, more than most of his contemporaries, had a flair for choosing the most fruitful sites to dig, and for finding in them the […]
