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ReViews: A Museological Moment

By Steven Fine

Chronicles of the Land: Archaeology in the Israel Museum Jerusalem

Edited by Michal Dayagi-Mendels and Silvia Rozenberg
(Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2010), 352 pp., 325 color illus., $57.95 (paperback)

Chronicles of the Land celebrates the recent expansion of the Israel Museum and the lavish new installation of archaeological treasures displayed there. Beautifully photographed and produced in full color with a text geared to the intelligent layperson, this is more than just a coffee-table book to be schlepped home by excited tourists. Chronicles of the Land documents a museological moment of great significance, the first thorough reinstallation of the Israel Museum since it was opened in 1965. Many of the objects illustrated here are by now iconic, like the Chalcolithic copper hoard from the so-called Cave of Treasures, the […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Hershel Shanks, “Inscription Reveals Roots of Maccabean Revolt,” BAR 34:06, and Dorothy D. Resig, “Volunteers Find Missing Pieces to Looted Inscription,” BAR 36:03.

2.

Yosef Ofer, “The Shattered Crown: The Aleppo Codex, 60 Years After the Riots,” BAR 34:05.