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SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH DEDICATION IN HEBREW dated 26.3.1992. RARE comprehensive archaeological and social history of the Judean desert monasteries and their monks in the Byzantine period by Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950-2006), an eminent Israeli archaeologist specializing in Greco-Roman and Byzantine archaeology, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of excavations at a number of sites around Israel, including Ramat Hanadiv, Tiberias, and Khirbet ed-Deir. 260x180mm. XX+305 pages. Beige cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket edges/corners wrinkled. Front cover upper corner and spine edges bumped. Few pages upper corner slightly bumped/wrinkled. Pages bottom corner near binding wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, of immense interest to scholars of early Christianity, Holy Land archaeology and Byzantine history, is in good condition.