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sketches and maps and coming down
to the uncovering of the Lithostratos
by the Sisters of Zion and the excavation and construction at Dominus
Flevit by the Franciscan fathers.
The translation from the French is
well done. There are a few minor inaccuracies. The renowned professor
Edward Robinson is called a pastor
(page 11). The foundation of the
American Schools of Oriental Research "at Baghdad and Jerusalem" is
placed "between the two world wars,
from 1919 to 1939" (page 12). The
school in Jerusalem was founded in
1900 and the one at Baghdad in 1922.
Ain Karim is located "on the coast
some six miles south-west of Jerusalem" (page 18). Those who have visited Ain Karim think of it as a suburb
of Jerusalem, some thirty miles from
the coast.
One may wish that the book had an
index. On the whole, however, it is
excellent, well worth the cost. Those
who know Jerusalem may enjoy it immensely; those who are interested in
the city but have not been there may
get from it an understanding and appreciation of its charm. The volume
is worthy of high recommendationto
anyone who wants to know more of
the Holy Land or who is contemplating a visit to the Middle East.
O. R. Sellers
McCormickTheologicalSeminary
WITHPAULIN GREECE,
by ROBERTS.
Kinsey. 203 pages, 16 plates. Parthenon Press, Nashville, Tennessee 1957
$2.50
There are real interest and value in
this account of the Greek cities visited
by Paul, as they are now and were
then, and in the accompanyinganalysis
of the related epistles and the collection of facts about ancient culture
illustrating aspects of the life of the
early church. The archaeologicalmaterial seems generally reliable and more
abundant than will be found elsewhere
in equally convenient compass, although the statements about Classical
culture, particularly religion, are often
less accurate.
Many will find the style disappointing. It is in "down-to-earth" language,
inspired by the challenge to "each generation to re-think and to re-phrase the
glorious story of redemption"- in the
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same spirit as many recent successful
translations of classics in modern vernacular and journalistic treatments of
archaeology.But this is a delicate business and there is a positive danger of
giving the "common man" only an
illusion of understanding, without giving him the real substance to understand. The style of this book, while
often fluent and fresh, is also often
woolly and formless; sometimes it
probably distorts the meaning of the
New Testament writers by over-enthusiastic application of the principle.
These criticisms, of course, apply to
a whole genre of contemporary writing, and this particular book is in large
part redeemed from the sin of its style
by its content.
Robert Scranton
Emory University
DENMARK
BEFORE
THEVIKINGS,
by OLE
Klindt- Jensen. 212 pages, 16 figures,
73 plates. Frederick A. Praeger, New
York 1958 (Ancient Peoples and
Places, edited by Glyn Daniel) $5.00
For a quarter of a century Shetelig's
Scandinavian Archaeology was the
main source of information in English
on the prehistory of Northern Europe,
but it soon became obsolete. In recent
years the Anglo-Americanpublic has
been given at least three books about
the antiquity of one of the Scandinavian countries, Denmark. One of these
books is written by an active worker
in the field of Danish prehistory- Dr.
Klindt-Jensen, a curator in the prehistoric department of the National Museum in Copenhagen. But his professional training does not imply that
Denmark before the Vikings must be
a heavy textbook on this complicated
subject. On the contrary, it is easy to
read and remarkably well illustrated.
It gives an outline of prehistory from
the earliest distinguishable traces of
man in Denmark, at the end of the
Upper Palaeolithic era, until and including most of the first millennium
of our era. Naturally no author can
treat periods with which he has been
personally less concerned in the same
way as his special topics. For Dr.
Klindt-Jensen these are the Iron Age
periods, about 500 B.c.- A.D.800. In
the chapters on the "Pre-Roman" and
"Roman" periods, and on the "Dark
Ages," the author's excavations on the
island of Bornholm in the Baltic are

rather strongly emphasized- and sometimes his personal interpretations too.
In this reviewer's opinion, the author
is fully justified in giving only brief
and rather superficial chapters on the
Pre-Neolithic Stone Age. But the result is that about 8000 years of the
11,000to be treated are handled in 20
pages out of 130. The fact that Danish
flakke, "blade," has been translated as
"flake" may cause some confusion. A
few of the many place-names have
been misspelled in the printing, but
they will be easily recognizableto any
reader familar with finds from, e.g.,
Ertebolle ("Eterbolle").
This book is, of course, not intended
for the specialist. But perhaps even
the general reader who attempts to
learn more about Danish prehistory
through other works will be slightly
surprised to find that the problems are
more numerous and more intricate
than he might have suspected from
Dr. Klindt-Jensen's somewhat dogmatic and, in its general views, rather
conventional book. But he will be
grateful for an easy introduction,
nicely told, with plenty of interesting
information about a fascinating series
of splendid finds recovered from Denmark's soil.
Carl-Axel Moberg
Museum
Archaeological
Göteborg, Sweden
I NUOVISCAVI(1927-1958),
ERCOLANO,
by Amedeo Maiuri. Text, vol. I, vii,
508 pages, 430 illustrations in text, 40
plates. Instituto Poligraficodello Stato,
Rome. 1958 60,000 Lire
The appearance of this stately publication is an outstanding event in this
archaeological age. The exceptional
position of Herculaneumis a matter of
common knowledge. After a half-century of suspended life, the officialexcavations were renewed in 1927, interrupted by World War II, and resumed
in 1952. The preparation of this publication had been nearly completed
by 1941; it now includes a more adequate presentation of the zones to east
and south of the previously excavated
area.
The present volume treats of the
topography of the city and its building
industry, with a detailed publication
of all the public and private edifices
discovered up to now, and a discussion of the special characteristics of

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