PREFACE

The Trustees of the Palestine Archaeological Museum have been most generous in the loan of copyright photographs for reproduction in these pages (plates 1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 20-4, 26, 30-5, 37, 39-42), as has Father L. H. Grollenberg in respect of plates 2, 4, 9, 25, 27-9, 38, and Father Jean Starcky for plates 16 and 36. Mr Harding, on behalf of the Jordan Department of Antiquities, kindly lent me plate 5.

I have been fortunate in having generous access to the characteristically complete Scrolls bibliography of Professor H. H. Rowley, and my wife has helped greatly by her clerical assistance in compiling my selection, as well as in proof-reading and many other necessary tasks involved in the production of this book.