Sacred Geography: a Tale of Murder and Archaeology in the Holy Land.

• Author: Beckman, Gary
• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

By EDWARD FOX. New York: METROPOLITAN BOOKS, 2001. Pp. 254. $25.

In 1997, journalist Edward Fox set out to learn who had murdered Albert Glock, professor of archaeology at Birzeit University, five years earlier. In this inviting book he presents the results of his investigation, intertwined with a fluent account of the development of archaeology in Israel/Palestine and a description of life in the West Bank during the first intifada. While his even-handed description of conditions under Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance is unlikely to please partisans of either side in the ongoing conflict, and many readers will...