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Article: Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- Middle East Policy
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- March 1, 2001
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Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948, by Meron Benvenisti, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 366 pages, with notes, index, 2 maps and 23 plates. $35.00, hardcover.
Both these books are well-conceived and finely executed studies -- albeit from differing vantage points -- that afford the reader penetrating insight into Jerusalem and the Holy Land at the hopeful beginning of a new millennium. Meron Benvenisti is a distinguished Israeli journalist and former deputy major of Jerusalem whose father, David, was instrumental in drafting the definitive Hebrew map of the infant state of Israel in 1949 and who wrote the first ...