Scholars Bookshelf

Dan I: A Chronicle of the Excavations, the Pottery Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age Tombs

Avraham Biran, David Ilan and Raphael Greenberg; Edited by Avraham Biran (Jerusalem: Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 1996; available from the Israel Exploration Society) vi + 329 pp., 10 foldout plans; 234 figures and photos, $52.00

Tel Dan is surely one of the most imposing and important sites in Israel, and the publication of Dan I—the first volume of the site’s excavation report—is a milestone in Israeli archaeology.