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Dever To Write Popular Book on Gezer and To Undertake Emergency Preservation on Site

William G. Dever, the excavator of Gezer,1 will write a popular book on the 11-year Gezer excavation, which lasted from 1964 to 1974. Dever is currently negotiating with Thomas Nelson Publishers for a book contract.

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Footnotes

A festschrift is a book of scholarly papers presented by friends to honor a scholar.

Endnotes

The initial director of the project was G. Ernest Wright, who served from 1964 to 1965. Dever headed the excavation team from 1966 to 1971. The last three seasons, beginning in 1971, were led by Joe D. Seger, now of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University.

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