Yadin's Popular Book on Hazor Now Available

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Yigael Yadin’s popular volume on Hazor has now been published by Random House. Titled Hazor, The Rediscovery of a Great Citadel of the Bible, the book is priced at $20.00. In format and style, it follows the author’s highly successful accounts of his excavations at Masada and in the so-called Bar-Kokhba caves on the shores of the Dead Sea.

The new book covers the same material as the Oxford University Press volume entitled “Hazor, ‘The Head of all Those Kingdoms’” (reviewed in “Yigael Yadin on ‘Hazor, The Head of All Those Kingdoms,’” BAR 01:01), but in a far less technical manner.

Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of pictures, many of them in color, it is the next best thing to a slide lecture by Yadin himself. Even the excavation plans are in two and three colors to allow the reader easy understanding of the superimposed layers. And the related text follows the illustrations page for page making it much easier to follow the story. Which brings us to the writing itself: Yadin is simply the best popular archaeological writer working today.